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.