Table 1 Target population for micro-elimination of HCV in Belgium

Children (under age 15)

Newly diagnosed (and reported) HCV cases in 2015: 19 cases aged under 15 years of age [12]

Coinfected with HIV

353 (calculated, 2.4% of HIV-positive population) [13, 14]

Generational cohorts with high prevalence (born 1945–1965)

No data

Patients on HD

297 (4% of patients on HD in Belgium) [15]

Haemophilia patients

No national data; 11 patients remaining at the University Hospital Leuven

MSM

No national data: 19 out of 1055 (1.8%) in 2017 at ITM Antwerp

Migrants from high-prevalence countries

18,607 estimated (range 9729-32,764) [16]

Patients with advanced liver disease

21,875 [17, 18]

PWID

2970 calculated used benchmark multiplier methodology [19]

Prisoners

1777 calculated (15.1% HCV-infected of 11,769 prisoners) [20, 21]

Transplant recipients

146 (12.6%) out of 1156 liver transplants between 2008 and 2012 [6]; 11 at one site [6]