PRO/EDR> Hepatitis C – India (03): (Northeast states) IV drug users

Hepatitis C — Worldwide/Unknown
With little awareness about increasing hepatitis C cases in the northeast, activists and medical practitioners warned that unless effective programs were implemented, there would be a further escalation in the number of people acquiring this virus.
Often referred to as a viral time bomb [because it may be clinically silent until cirrhosis or liver cancer develop decades later. – Mod.LL], the disease is widespread among intravenous drug users (IDUs). Manipur’s Surachanpur and Bishnupur