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Prevalence and risk factors for HBV and HCV among incarcerated people who inject drugs in Iran: a cross sectional study

2020-10-30

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<h4>Background: </h4> This study aimed at determining the prevalence of and risk factors for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) among incarcerated people who inject drugs (PWID) in Iran in 2015-16. Methods : The required data was collected from a database provided by Iranian national bio-behavioral surveillance surveys (BBSSs) on 11988 prisoners selected from among 55 prisons in 19 provinces in 20...

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Literature Corpus work: 6ba30ba5-092e-570b-a440-a00b931af454
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.24162/v4

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