High risk countries
Some people living in Ireland come from countries where the rates of hepatitis C are high.
Hepatitis C is more common in the following countries:
Europe
- Albania
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
Africa
- Angola
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana, Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Mali
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone,
- Togo
- Western Sahara
Middle East and North Africa
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Lebanon
- Kuwait
- Iraq
- Oman
- Yemen
- United Arab Emirates
- Jordan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Palestinian Territory
Latin Americas
Puerto Rico
South Asia
Pakistan
East Asia
- Cambodia
- Mongolia
- Thailand
- Taiwan
- China