In the sprawling camps of Cox's Bazar, nearly one in five Rohingya refugees carries Hepatitis C — a silent inheritance from Myanmar's broken medical systems, where shared needles and unscreened blood were once simply the way things were done. A study published this year has made the scale undeniable: infection rates among refugees run seventeen times higher than among the surrounding Bangladeshi population, with the newest arrivals bearing the heaviest burden. Tens of thousands remain untreated as funding falls short, and the virus, indifferent to borders, has begun to spread into host communi
One in five Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar has Hepatitis C
Approximately 28,000-33,000 Rohingya refugees (20-22% of 150,000 recent arrivals) are infected with Hepatitis C, facing risk of liver cirrhosis or cancer without treatment; 50,000 patients remain untreated due to funding shortages.