Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV Infections Among Pregnant Women and Newborns in Mogadishu, Somalia: A Four-Year Retrospective Study
Özgür Şahin,
Marian Muse Osman,
Ifrah Abdi Nor
Abstract:In Somalia, the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections have different distributions according to gender, age, geographical regions of the country with different conditions, and subgroups of the population which have different characteristics or a specific disease. After the increasing number of general prevalence studies across the country in recent years, the need to examine the prevalence of relevant viral infections in subgroups of t… Show more
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