Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection

World Health Organization

Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection

World Health Organization

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Hepatitis B (HBV) infection is a major public health problem and cause of chronic liver disease.

The 2024 HBV guidelines provide updated evidence-informed recommendations on key priority topics. These include expanded and simplified treatment criteria for adults but now also for adolescents; expanded eligibility for antiviral prophylaxis for pregnant women to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HBV; improving HBV diagnostics through use of point-of-care HBV DNA viral load and reflex approaches to HBV DNA testing; who to test and how to test for HDV infection; and approaches to promote delivery of high-quality HBV services, including strategies to promote adherence to long-term antiviral therapy and retention in care.

The 2024 guidelines include 11 updated chapters with new recommendations and also update existing chapters without new recommendations, such as those on treatment monitoring and surveillance for liver cancer.

Original language	English
Publisher	World Health Organisation, Geneva
Number of pages	275
ISBN (Electronic)	9789240090903
ISBN (Print)	9789240090910
Publication status	Published - 29 Mar 2024

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