Hepatitis B: Meeting Our Elimination Targets
In May 2016, Canada signed on to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s first ever Global Viral Hepatitis Strategy, with the goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. With vaccines and treatments available, and a cure being explored, hepatitis B elimination is possible.
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Infant vaccination is especially important as over 90% of infants who become infected will develop chronic hepatitis B, compared to 5% of adults (95% of adults will clear their hepatitis B infections spontaneously).