Hepatitis C virus prevalence and genotype distribution in Pakistan: Comprehensive review of recent data

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]

¹Out 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.