Hepatitis B Virus

China immunizes millions of children against hepatitis B in historic collaboration

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 27th, 2006

Since 2002, China has immunised 11.1 million children in the country's poorest and most remote western and central provinces against hepatitis B, reducing their risk of developing a deadly and common liver cancer, according to an announcement made by the Chinese government and the GAVI Alliance.

Following a ceremony in Beijing, held to commend the Chinese for their dramatic progress, GAVI and Chinese health officials told journalists that the boost in immunisations represents a 60% increase in hepatitis B vaccine doses delivered to children in target provinces. The children reached include newborns, who receive a "birth dose" of vaccine plus two more doses at one and...

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