Hepatitis B Vaccines

WHO Won't Make Global HBV Vaccine Target Date

Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 8th, 1997

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would miss its target to introduce a hepatitis B vaccine world-wide by the end of 1997 because some countries said the number of cases did not justify the cost.

The WHO wanted all countries in the world to include a hepatitis B vaccine in their national immunization programs by the end of the year, but experts said they were unlikely to do so for around another decade.

"Being realistic, I don't see us reaching the target before 2005," Elizabeth McCloy of the Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board lobby group said at a conference in Madrid, Spain.

Hepatitis B, one of the world's most common...

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