Towards safe injection practices for prevention of hepatitis C transmission in South Asia: Challenges and progress

Table 2 Search and retrieval of information for injection use in South Asia 1995-2016

	Key words	India	Pakistan	Bangladesh	Nepal	Sri Lanka	Maldives
PubMed - Retrieved	Injection and country/state	189	51	12	14	13	5
PubMed - selected/relevant		25	25	5	8	0	0
Google Scholar1	Unsafe injections, injections, country	3		1 (419)	2 (329)	1 (242)	0 (40)
Google	Unsafe injections, injections, country	2	1	0	0
WHO website		0	0	0	0	0	0
PATH					2
In country assessments by MoH			1
Unpublished reports		1	2
Other circumstantial evidence2
Risk factors studies suggesting injection use	Risk factors, HBV (HCV), country			1
Hepatitis B/C	Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Country			19 (38)	13 (36)
Health care utilization	Health care seeking, Health care utilization, Private practice, Country			15 (32)		6 (16)
(retrieved)
Private practitioners health seeking (retrieved)	Health care seeking, Private practice, Country			5 (8)		3
Prescribing practices (retrieved)	Prescription practices, Country			5 (5)		1

¹Google scholar retrieved too many articles and most of them were not relevant: these were used mainly for countries for which information was not available through PubMed;

²Not used for countries for which data on injection use were available. Parenthesis represent retrieved and number represent the number that were relevant and reviewed. HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus.