Hepatitis C distribution across diverse population groups in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: An umbrella review

• Zahra Abdolahinia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Sana Eybpoosh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sana Eybpoosh, Hamid Sharifi

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); sana.eybpoosh@gmail.com (SE)

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Parya Jangipour Afshar,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Ali Karamoozian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Kayhan Azadmanesh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Hamid Sharifi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sana Eybpoosh, Hamid Sharifi

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); sana.eybpoosh@gmail.com (SE)

  Affiliations HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9008-7618

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