Hepatitis C virus seroprevalence among patients enrolled at the opioid substitution therapy center in Bihar: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection poses a major public health challenge in Indian settings due to its huge population and easy transmissibility of HCV among individuals who inject drugs (PWID, which is increasing in India). The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), India has started the Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) centers to improve the health status of opioid dependent PWID and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among them. We conducted a cross-sectional study to find out the HCV sero-positive status and associated determinants in patients attending the OST centre in the ICMR-RMRIMS, Patna.

Materials and methods

We utilized the routinely collected (as a part of the National AIDS Control Program) and de-identified data from the OST center from 2014

SUBMITTER: Kumar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270565 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature