Abstract:Hepatitis C Virus Transmission Risk in Incarcerated or Detained PopulationsTo the Editor:Prisons and other closed settings are important sentinel sites for understanding the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other blood-borne infections. We commend Larney et al. 1 for their recent review, which provides much needed global and regional estimates of HCV prevalence among detainees, confirms the occurrence of HCV transmission in closed settings, 2 and stratifies estimates by injection drug use (IDU) hist… Show more
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