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Presentation: Hepatitis B – What’s new on the HBV vaccine watch?

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At the World Vaccine Congress 2012 in Washington, Dr Timothy Block from the Hepatitis B Foundation talked about the prevention of Hepatitis B and the unmet needs in terms of both prevention and treatment of the disease.

350 million people in the world are chronically infected with HBV, mostly in Asia and Africa. HBV is major etiological factor for liver cancer.HBV vaccine was successful in decreasing number of HBV cases to less than 50,000 cases per year. Chronic HBV also dropped 10 fold in countries where the vaccination was implemented.

Why not download the full presentation and find out more about the challenges facing the distributors of the HBV Vaccine:

• 5 % of population is not responsive to the vaccine
• Development of resistant strains of viruses
• Multiple injections are needed
• Expensive
• There is still peri-natal transmission
• Waning immunity
• Vaccine requires cold storage