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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1534169
This article is part of the Research Topic World Hepatitis Day 2024: Advancing Hepatitis Elimination, Public Health Strategies and Innovations View all 9 articles
Awareness of hepatitis C prevention and treatment and high-risk behaviors among the general population in Anhui Province：A crosssectional study
Provisionally accepted- 1 Anhui Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
- 2 Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
The World Health Organization (WHO) set the goal of "eliminating viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030" in 2016. In 2021, the National Health Commission of China (NHCC), issued an action plan to help achieve the WHO's goal of eliminating the Hepatitis C virus by 2030. Therefore, the primary objective of this study was to investigate the awareness of knowledge of hepatitis C prevention and treatment and high-risk behaviors among the general population of Anhui Province.Methods: Stratified sampling method had been used to select participants to conduct a survey from June 2021 to September 2021 in Anhui Province. Multivariate logistic regression model was used to reveal the influencing factors of participants' awareness and the self-selected high-risk behaviors of HCV infection.
Keywords: Hepatitis C, Awareness, high-risk behaviors, Public Health, Anhui Province
Received: 25 Nov 2024; Accepted: 24 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Dai, Wang, Guo, Tang, Guo, Zhang and Fan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jin Zhang, Anhui Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, 230601, Anhui Province, China
Yinguang Fan, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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