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Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Persons Who Inject Drugs in the Middle East and North Africa: Intervention Strategies

Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1363; https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071363
by Jag H. Khalsa 1,2,* and Poonam Mathur 2
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1363; https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071363
Submission received: 10 June 2021 / Revised: 4 July 2021 / Accepted: 11 July 2021 / Published: 14 July 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis of Chronic Viral Infections)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript was well-written and comprehensive. Only several minor points were required to improve the content of the manuscript.

  1. Abstract:  "SUD" should be added as the abbreviation in line 12. 
  2. I suggest the authors to use the term "people who inject drugs (PWID)" throughout the manuscript. The abbreviation of PWID was presented in Page 3, line 122, and the full-name in Page 4, line 169 can be deleted.
  3. Page 4, line 163: from alcohol .... marijuana are highly prevalent.
  4. Intervention strategies for the MENA regions: I suggest to use the subtitles for each strategy.

Author Response

We are grateful to the 1st reviewer for excellent positive comments, and accordingly have revised the manuscript with track changes. These are also mentioned in a short cover letter to Dr. Kottilil. see attached revised manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

The work of Jag  Khalsa  and Poonam Mathur review  the epidemiology of HCV in the MENA region and  highlight intervention strategies to attain the WHO’s goal of HCV eradication by 2030. It is of great interest as the the prevalence of viral hepatitis is generally higher in the Middle Eastern countries  than in Europe and USA. It is well written with a vast bibliography It is an almost theoretical work and it would be good if some summarized diagrams could improve the visibility of the manuscript.

Author Response

We are grateful to the 2nd reviewer for excellent and positive comments and have accordingly revised the manuscript. We have added a slide summarizing the intervention strategies with subheadings. See attached. 

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

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