The World Health Organization announced that the Maldives, alongside Sri Lanka, has achieved hepatitis B control after an expert panel verified consistently high infant hepatitis B vaccine coverage and low disease prevalence. Both countries join Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Thailand, which achieved control status in 2019.
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The Maldives has achieved hepatitis B control, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday after an expert panel verified that the country, along with neighbouring Sri Lanka, has consistently high coverage of hepatitis B vaccine doses in infants and a low prevalence of the deadly disease, corroborated through surveys conducted in both countries recently.
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I congratulate and commend Maldives and Sri Lanka on their achievement which once again demonstrates the earnest efforts being made by the health leaders and officials, health workers and the people of these countries towards health and we…
Based on the evidence presented to it, the Expert Panel concluded that the standards required for verification of Hepatitis B control have been met in both these countries and hence recommended that this important public health target has …
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The Expert Panel for Verification of Hepatitis B Control in WHO South-East Asia Region reviewed childhood immunisation data from Maldives and Sri Lanka that showed consistent over 90 percent coverage with Hepatitis B vaccine doses provided during infancy over the past many years.
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The Region has an estimated 60 million people living with chronic hepatitis B and 218,000 dying every year of hepatitis B and C.
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The Region has an estimated 60 million people living with chronic hepatitis B and 218,000 dying every year of hepatitis B and C.
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Of the persons eligible for antiviral treatment only about 10 percent know their status and less than five percent are on treatment.
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the WHO and UNICEF estimates for 2022 show that the overall coverage of the third dose of pentavalent vaccine has recovered to the pre-pandemic level of 91 percent, a sharp increase from 82 percent coverage reported in 2021.
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a sharp increase from 82 percent coverage reported in 2021
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countries also need to focus on improving the hepatitis B vaccine birth doses which continue to have a relatively slow uptake with an estimated coverage of only 58 percent in 2022.
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