Hepatitis

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Shabu WDC chair Abdulkadir Abeh. Credit: Afeez Bolaji

How Nigeria’s Nasarawa state took on hepatitis

7 May 2025

7 min read

Credit: CEPI

The Viral Most Wanted: The Parvoviruses and Hepeviruses

17 Feb 2025

6 min read

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A newborn baby in the Gambia. The hepatitis B birth dose is ideally administered within 24 hours of delivery. Credit: Gavi/2018/Guido Dingemans

Scaling up hepatitis B birth dose vaccination will save lives, and livers, experts say

26 Jul 2024

8 min read

6 month old Fiona waits for a vaccine at a clinic in Soa District, Cameroon. Doctors say childhood immunisation, beginning with a birth dose, against hepatitis B needs to be scaled up to knock back the liver-damaging virus. Credit: The Global Fund/Vincent Becker

Meet the medic championing Cameroon’s fight against viral hepatitis

26 Jul 2024

5 min read

Health worker heroes Hepatitis

Workers cleaning water storage tanks in Vengoor. Credit: Vengoor Panchayat

Inside the storm: How soaring hepatitis A rates are affecting Kerala

12 Jul 2024

6 min read

Harm reduction like provision of needles for drug use has been identified as a way to limit the transmission of blood borne infections like Hepatitis. However, despite progress in diagnosis and the drop in prices of testing and treatment, far too few people receive treatment. Copyright: World bank (CC BY-NC 2.0)

‘Declare health emergency’ to end hepatitis in Asia

27 Jun 2024

4 min read

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Hepatitis E viruses. Credit: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #5605.

Chad is facing a Hep E outbreak: what role could vaccines play in the response?

28 May 2024

4 min read

Hepatitis Outbreaks Conflict & humanitarian

Children's department of Tashkent’s infectious diseases hospital. Credit: Umida Maniyazova

Rising incidence of hepatitis A in Uzbekistan prompts vaccination push

5 Apr 2024

4 min read

A lab technician works on a sample drawn from patient seeking treatment for reproductive health services at Maswa District Hospital. Credit: Syriacus Buguzi

Tanzania to tackle HIV, hepatitis, and STIs in unified approach

5 Mar 2024

4 min read

R. Dhaarmika supervises a midwife at a Maternal and Child Welfare Center in Colombo. Credit: Aanya Wipulasena

Sri Lanka achieves hepatitis B control: “We are on track for elimination”

21 Feb 2024

5 min read

3D illustration of Hepatitis E virus molecular model.

Vaccine profiles: hepatitis E

11 Dec 2023

7 min read

Vaccine profiles Hepatitis

Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. Credit: julien Tromeur on Unsplash

Why a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine could be life-changing

6 Dec 2023

5 min read

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