The recommendation was issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force who is funded by the American government whose job it is to issue evidence based preventive medical recommendations for only the American population based on data relevant to the American population. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has neither the authority nor the funding to make Hep C testing recommendations for other countries.

Other countries may have similar issues and their medical task forces may issue similar recommendations, or Hep C might be extremely uncommon in other countries and their medical task force may make different recommendations.

That was the scope of the report. From the first paragraph of the submission:

> "The hepatitis C virus now kills more Americans than all other reportable infectious diseases combined -- including HIV. Acute cases of HCV have increased 3.5-fold over the last decade, particularly among young, white, injection drug users."