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Hindawi, ISRN Hepatology, (2013), p. 1-3, 2013

DOI: 10.1155/2013/617480

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Female Genital Cutting and Hepatitis C Spread in Egypt

Journal article published in 2013 by Chris Kenyon, Jozefien Buyze ORCID, Ludwig Apers, Robert Colebunders
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A recent analysis of Egypt’s first nationally representative survey of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection found female genital cutting (FGC) to be an independent risk factor for HCV infection for women in urban areas. We use the same dataset to extend this analysis. In an ecological analysis, we find a strong association between FGC and HCV prevalence (Pearson R2—74%; P<0.0001). HCV prevalence is significantly higher if FGC is performed by a non-Doctor (15.4%) than a Doctor (4.2%; P<0.001), and the calculated population attributable fraction of FGC for prevalent HCV seropositivity is high in women (79.8%).