Esmat, Gamal
Zaid, Hala
Hassany, Mohamed
Abdel-Razek, Wael
El-Serafy, Magdy
El Akel, Wafaa
Salah, Aysam
Kamal, Ehab
Elshishiney, Galal
Ammar, Islam
Kabil, Khaled
AbdAllah, Mohamed
Saeed, Ramy
Saad, Tarek
Omar, Yasser
Dabbous, Hany
El-Sayed, Manal H.
El Shazly, Yehia
Doss, Wahid
Waked, Imam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9857-8972
Article History
Received: 20 December 2023
Accepted: 24 March 2024
First Online: 1 April 2024
Declarations
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: As individual and personal data are not made public and are unknown to the authors, the study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval by the Ethics Committee and the board of the National Committee for the Control of Viral Hepatitis (NCCVH) of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Egypt. All persons coming for screening came voluntarily without any incentive or possible punitive consequences for not participating.
: All data used for the analysis for this publication were anonymized and no personal or individual data are known. No signed consent form was obtained from the 49.6 million persons participating in the screening, and the ethics committee of the MoH decided that the persons’ voluntary participation in the screening program was sufficient to use their anonymous data for analysis of disease prevalence.
: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.