Urgent need for lived experience in hepatitis B guideline development
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Urgent need for lived experience in hepatitis B guideline development

Urgent need for lived experience in hepatitis B guideline development
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Globally, nearly 300 million people live with hepatitis B virus (HBV), making it the most common chronic infection. Although mortality rates have remained stable for the past 20 years, two people die from HBV every minute. WHO has called for the elimination of hepatitis B as a public health threat by 2030, setting goals to prevent new infections through birth-dose vaccination and to prevent illness and death by improving testing, clinical management, and treatment. However, progress towards elimination has stalled.

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