{"id":54429,"date":"2021-08-19T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=54429"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:13:02","slug":"mother-infant-hepatitis-b-treatment-prevention-feasible-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/mother-infant-hepatitis-b-treatment-prevention-feasible-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother-Infant Hepatitis B Treatment, Prevention Feasible in Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54430\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 164px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/Peyton-Professional-Photo-Peyton-Thompson-1-1463x2048-1-560x784-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/Peyton-Professional-Photo-Peyton-Thompson-1-1463x2048-1-560x784-1-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/Peyton-Professional-Photo-Peyton-Thompson-1-1463x2048-1-560x784-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/Peyton-Professional-Photo-Peyton-Thompson-1-1463x2048-1-560x784-1-301x421.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/Peyton-Professional-Photo-Peyton-Thompson-1-1463x2048-1-560x784-1.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Peyton Thompson, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A study in Lancet Global Health led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/ideel\/directory\/peyton-wilson\/\">Peyton Thompson<\/a>, MD, MSCR, assistant professor of pediatric\u00a0infectious diseases, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/ideel\/directory\/jonathan-parr\/\">Jonathan Parr<\/a>, MD, MPH, assistant professor in adult\u00a0infectious diseases, showed the feasibility and acceptance of hepatitis B virus testing, treatment, and vaccination programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains endemic throughout sub-Saharan Africa despite the widespread availability of effective childhood vaccines. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, HBV treatment and birth-dose vaccination programs are not established.<\/p>\n<p>UNC School of Medicine\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">researchers led a study to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of HBV testing and treatment of pregnant women, as well as birth-dose vaccination of HBV-exposed infants. This program was added to existing public health infrastructure to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HBV\u00a0in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7114\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 153px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/jonathan-parr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/jonathan-parr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read more from the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2021\/08\/mother-infant-hepatitis-b-treatment-prevention-feasible-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\">UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in Lancet Global Health led by Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR, assistant professor of pediatric\u00a0infectious diseases, and Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, assistant professor in adult\u00a0infectious diseases, showed the feasibility and acceptance of hepatitis B virus testing, treatment, and vaccination programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains endemic throughout &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/mother-infant-hepatitis-b-treatment-prevention-feasible-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mother-Infant Hepatitis B Treatment, Prevention Feasible in Sub-Saharan Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":54430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-54429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mother-Infant Hepatitis B Treatment, Prevention Feasible in Sub-Saharan Africa | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/mother-infant-hepatitis-b-treatment-prevention-feasible-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mother-Infant Hepatitis B Treatment, Prevention Feasible in Sub-Saharan Africa | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A study in Lancet Global Health led by Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR, assistant professor of pediatric\u00a0infectious diseases, and Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, assistant professor in adult\u00a0infectious diseases, showed the feasibility and acceptance of hepatitis B virus testing, treatment, and vaccination programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 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