Now is the Time to Scale Up Birth-Dose Hepatitis B Vaccine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Thompson, Peyton; Parr, Jonathan B; Boisson, Alix; Razavi-Shearer, Devin; Ezechi, Oliver C; Wang, Su H; Tucker, Joseph D · J Infect Dis · 2023

expert_opinion · Level V

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Abstract

Fewer than half of the world's infants have access to the birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine (HBV), which prevents mother-to-child transmission of HBV and subsequent liver cancer. Now is the time to expand access for infants born in low-resource settings.

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