Research Article
The Association between Female Genital Cutting and Spousal HCV Infection in Egypt
Table 2
Prevalence of HCV antibodies in 2591 husband-wife pairs, stratified by female genital cutting (FGC) status of the woman (Egyptian DHS 2008).
| | Wife’s HCV antibody status (%) | | | Negative | Positive | Totalb (%) |
| Wife has undergone FGC | | | | Husband HCV negative | 1721 | 155 | 1876 (76.3) | Husband HCV positive | 442 | 141 | 583 (23.7) | Totala (%) | 2163 (88.0) | 296 (12.0) | 2459 (100) | Wife has not undergone FGC | | | | Husband HCV negative | 119 | 2 | 121 (91.7) | Husband HCV positive | 9 | 2 | 11 (8.3) | Totala (%) | 128 (97.0) | 4 (3.0) | 132 (100) |
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