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Article: HIV and hepatitis C virus coinfection, Cameroon.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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To the Editor: Coinfection with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is now a major public health concern worldwide, owing both to its high prevalence (4-5 million persons of 40 million infected by HIV) and to interactions between the 2 diseases in terms of their diagnosis, natural course, and treatment (1,2). Although Africa is the continent by far the most badly affected by both HIV and HCV infections, data on coinfection in the general population are lacking. In Cameroon, a central African country, the HCV seroprevalence is among the highest in the world (13.8%) (3). We have also reported a high seroprevalence of HIV in a general population of southern Cameroon (7.4%), and ...