Call for universal Hepatitis B vaccination

pharmafile | August 22, 2008 | News story | Sales and Marketing |  hepatitis 

The pharma industry has joined up with patient groups to petition for universal Hepatitis B immunisation for all children in the UK.

The ABPI, the British Liver Trust and the Hepatitis B Foundation want the government to change its policy on the life-threatening disease and fall into line with other European countries.

"Lives are being put at risk. A programme needs to be put into place to ensure that all British children are inoculated against Hepatitis B," said the ABPI's medical director Dr Richard Tiner.

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"It is a matter of public health. Much of the rest of Europe operates mass childhood vaccination programmes; it is time that the UK followed suit."

Hepatitis B is 50 times more infectious than HIV and affects more than 325,000 patients in the UK. There is no cure and chronic Hepatitis B can develop into potentially fatal conditions such as liver cancer and cirrhosis.

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