This article intends to determine the baseline prevalence of HCV infection at the national level in Mongolia. The study covered 1512 people within an age range of 0-80 years from 13 soums of 12 aimags and 4 districts of Ulaanbaatar. There were significantly differences in the prevalence of HCV infection among the number of aimags such as Dornod, Bayankhongor and Arkhangai were very high level, while relatively low in the Umnugovi and Uvurkhangai aimags. This finding indicated that the HCV prevalence is highly related to ages and slightly related to risk groups of the population. The epidemiological situation of HCV infection in Mongolia was endemic among the all aimags and districts. The HCV was related to ages as it increases with increasing ages. Prevalence of HCV among the risk group population was close to average prevalence among the general population.

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