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	Total^b(%)
Wife has undergone FGC
Husband HCV negative	1721	155	1876 (76.3)
Husband HCV positive	442	141	583 (23.7)
Total^a (%)	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)
Total^a (%)	128 (97.0)	4 (3.0)	132 (100)

aRow percentages.
bColumn percentages.