Key recommendations in guidelines for the prevention,diagnosis,care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection released by the World Health Organization in 2024
In March 2024,the World Health Organization released the latest version of guidelines for the prevention,diagnosis,care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection.The guidelines were updated in several aspects,including expanding and simplifying the indications for chronic hepatitis B treatment,adding alternative antiviral treatment regimens,broadening the indications for antiviral therapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission,improving the diagnosis of hepatitis B virus,and adding hepatitis D virus(HDV)testing.This article summarizes and gives an excerpt of the recommendations in the guidelines.
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