Hepatitis B prevention: Can we learn from the response to HIV/AIDS?

Mirjam E E Kretzschmar; Marianne A B van der Sande

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003109

Hepatitis B prevention: Can we learn from the response to HIV/AIDS?

PLoS Med. 2020 Apr 21;17(4):e1003109. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003109. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Mirjam E E Kretzschmar^{1

2}, Marianne A B van der Sande^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
³ Department Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Abstract

Mirjam Kretzschmar and Marianne van der Sande discuss the accompanying research study by Anna McNaughton and colleagues on strategies to reduce the burden of hepatitis B in African countries.

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MeSH terms

Africa
HIV
Hepatitis B virus*
Hepatitis B*
Humans
Seroepidemiologic Studies

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.