Ten years countdown to hepatitis C elimination in Belgium: a mathematical modeling approach

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 The prevalence data of the different (risk) groups used in the model

Population	HCV RNA% (ref)	# Total estimated population in Belgium (ref)	# Infected Belgium
General population	0.12 [2]	11,405,000 [14]	13,686
IDU	25.00	10,000 [15]	2500
Prisoners	2.14 [10]	11,835 [16]	254
Migrants	0.17	15,204 [17]	26
PLHIV	6.27 [8]	18,908 [13]	1186
MSM with HIV	18.40 [8]	6301 [13]	1159
MSM	0.36 [13]	2924 [13]	10

HCV hepatitis C virus, IDU injecting drug users, PLHIV people living with HIV, MSM men who have sex with men

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