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May 2008, Vol 98, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 779-781
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.136275

EDITORIAL

Time for Renewed Commitment to Viral Hepatitis Prevention

John W. Ward, MD

The author is director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to John W. Ward, MD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, NCHHSTP, CDC, MS-G37, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333 (e mail: jward@cdc.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
Over the last 2 decades, successful public health interventions have altered the epidemiology of viral hepatitis in the United States. Vaccination of children and adolescents has reduced the incidence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections to historic lows. American Indians/Alaskan Natives, a population whose HBV rate was once 5 times that of other racial/ethnic populations, now has the lowest (0.5 cases per 100 000).1–3 Since the adoption in 1991 of a strategy to eliminate HBV transmission, HBV vaccination of infants, children, and adolescents has largely contributed to an 81% decline in new cases of HBV, . . . [Full Text]


   VACCINATE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS FOR HEPATITIS A AND B
 

   SCREEN FOR CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS B AND C
 

   BUILD SURVEILLANCE CAPACITY TO GUIDE PREVENTION SERVICES
 





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