By Marie Rosenthal
A new meta-analysis of global hepatitis data shows that indigenous peoples are up to 10 times more likely to be infected by viral hepatitis than the general population in their respective countries, according to a presentation at the 2017 World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Viral Hepatitis, in Anchorage, Alaska.
“These data confirm that indigenous peoples worldwide are bearing a disproportionately high burden of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or both.