Final Report: Estimating the Number of Persons co-infected with Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Canada

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Marcel DuBois, Hepatitis C Division, Health Canada for the mandate to carry out this study, and also for providing many key references from Canada and elsewhere. Dr. Chris Archibald and Jennifer Geduld kindly provided for the estimates of HIV prevalence, and provided valuable feedback concerning the updated estimates. Dr. Chris Archibald and Jennifer Geduld also provided outputs of the distribution of HIV diagnoses and reported AIDS cases among Aboriginal patients. Marcel DuBois and Drs. Chris Archibald, Shimian Zou and Susie El-Saadany provided useful critical comments on earlier drafts of this report. The contribution of the members of the expert panel (Dr. Morris Sherman, Dr. Kevin Craib and Dr. Shimian Zou) who helped to determine plausible ranges fro HCV prevalence was very much appreciated. Christine Krupa helped carry out the literature search, obtained copies of published studies and provided invaluable editing of an earlier version of the report.

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