Reviewer's report 
 Seroprevalence of hepatitis C and associated risk factors among an urban population in Haiti Title: 
 2  18 October 2004 Version: Date: 
 enea spada Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
Some of my comments regarding the representativeness of the study population and the risk factors 
analysed remain valid. However, the authors cannot address these issues due to the lack of detailed 
information. Despite of some design flaws, I recommend this paper for publication because it makes 
an important contribution to the understanding of hepatitis C epidemiology in Haiti. Furthermore, the 
paper is worthy of note because it underlines the role of controversial and not fully defined risk 
factors for the acquisition of HCV infection, such as having multiple sexual partners and medical or surgical procedures, which undoubtedly deserve further studies to be assessed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the 
author can be trusted to correct) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research Level of interest: 
interests 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
None 
Reviewer's report 
 Seroprevalence of hepatitis C and associated risk factors among an urban population in Haiti Title: 
 2  18 October 2004 Version: Date: 
 enea spada Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
Some of my comments regarding the representativeness of the study population and the risk factors 
analysed remain valid. However, the authors cannot address these issues due to the lack of detailed 
information. Despite of some design flaws, I recommend this paper for publication because it makes 
an important contribution to the understanding of hepatitis C epidemiology in Haiti. Furthermore, the 
paper is worthy of note because it underlines the role of controversial and not fully defined risk 
factors for the acquisition of HCV infection, such as having multiple sexual partners and medical or surgical procedures, which undoubtedly deserve further studies to be assessed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the 
author can be trusted to correct) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research Level of interest: 
interests 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
None 
Please review this paper.
user
Reviewer's report 
 Seroprevalence of hepatitis C and associated risk factors among an urban population in Haiti Title: 
 2  18 October 2004 Version: Date: 
 enea spada Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
Some of my comments regarding the representativeness of the study population and the risk factors 
analysed remain valid. However, the authors cannot address these issues due to the lack of detailed 
information. Despite of some design flaws, I recommend this paper for publication because it makes 
an important contribution to the understanding of hepatitis C epidemiology in Haiti. Furthermore, the 
paper is worthy of note because it underlines the role of controversial and not fully defined risk 
factors for the acquisition of HCV infection, such as having multiple sexual partners and medical or surgical procedures, which undoubtedly deserve further studies to be assessed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the 
author can be trusted to correct) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research Level of interest: 
interests 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
None 
assistant