Table 7.
Prevalence of active hepatitis C virus infection in Pakistan
| S. # | Year | Place |
Sample size |
Active HCV infection (%) |
Ref. | ||||
| Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | ||||
| General population | |||||||||
| 1 | 2010 | Swat | 290 | 300 | 590 | 2.8 | 5.7 | 4.2 | [45] |
| 2 | 2010 | Mansehra | 300 | 100 | 400 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 3.5 | [36] |
| 3 | 2012 | Rawalpindi | 147 | 156 | 303 | 17.7 | 16.7 | 17.2 | [135] |
| Islamabad | 75 | 125 | 200 | 5.3 | 3.2 | 4.0 | |||
| 4 | 2013 | Lahore | 1914 | 2332 | 4246 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.9 | [134] |
| 5 | 2014 | Mardan | 757 | 662 | 1419 | 11.5 | 5.1 | 8.5 | [37] |
| Intravenous drug users | |||||||||
| 6 | 2011 | KPK | 42 | 14.3 | [111] | ||||
| 7 | 2011 | KPK | 200 | 24.0 | [113] | ||||
| Dialysis patients | |||||||||
| 8 | 2011 | KPK | 25 | 28.0 | [111] | ||||
| 9 | 2011 | KPK | 384 | 27.6 | [119] | ||||
| Blood donors | |||||||||
| 10 | 2011 | KPK/FATA | - | - | 7148 | - | - | 1.6 | [89] |
| Health care workers | |||||||||
| 11 | 2011 | KPK | 824 | 2.8 | [115] | ||||
| Multi transfused population | |||||||||
| 12 | 2011 | KPK | 40 | 15.0 | [111] | ||||
| Patients undergoing major surgery | |||||||||
| 13 | 2011 | KPK | 25 | 8.0 | [111] | ||||
| Dental surgery patients | |||||||||
| 14 | 2011 | KPK | 35 | 14.3 | [111] | ||||
| Pregnant women | |||||||||
| 15 | 2011 | Karachi | 18000 | -1 | [102] | ||||
1
Out of 18000 subjects studied, 1043 women tested positive for anti- hepatitis C virus (HCV) during screening; only 640 out of these 1043 agreed to undergo nucleic acid testing of which 510 tested positive for HCV-RNA. KPK: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; FATA: Federally Administered Tribal Areas.