All the news Showing 10 of 39 articles from: Transmission and preventionGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Lancet commission sets agenda for the elimination of viral hepatitis Keith Alcorn / 10 January 2019 Viral hepatitis leads to around 1.3 million deaths a year, approximately 257 million people are living with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and 71 million with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Viral hepatitis ... Low dead-space syringes associated with lower hepatitis C prevalence in people who inject drugs Keith Alcorn / 01 October 2018 Exclusive use of low dead-space syringes is associated with a lower prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in people who inject drugs, especially in people who began injecting drugs recently, a study ... CDC works with countries to identify children infected with hepatitis B virus and generate the evidence for hepatitis B vaccine birth dose introduction CDC / 08 August 2018 Curbing hepatitis B in the United States will save lives and money, according to a new study Stanford Medicine / 11 July 2018 Italian hepatitis A outbreak among MSM linked to two European strains Healio Hepatology / 13 April 2018 Tenofovir DF does not reduce the risk of mother-to-child hepatitis B transmission Liz Highleyman / 14 March 2018 Mothers who took tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Viread) during pregnancy did not have a significantly lower risk of transmitting hepatitis B virus (HBV) to their infants compared with those who used ... US approves new hepatitis B vaccine as public health agencies update guidelines Liz Highleyman / 27 November 2017 On 9 November the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Heplisav-B, a new vaccine that provides protection against all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) with two rather ... FDA approves HBV vaccine Heplisav-B for adults Healio / 13 November 2017 Mapping hepatitis in Kenya shows where action is needed The Conversation / 10 October 2017 Hepatitis B: vaccine recommendations during supply constraints Public Health England / 09 August 2017 ← First123...4Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Transmission and prevention Diagnosis and monitoring Disease course and symptoms Treatment HIV and HBV HCV and HBV Hepatitis delta Living with HBV New and experimental therapies Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E NAFLD Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Noticeboard Email bulletins News feeds