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Hepatitis B

Americas

• Lancet Regional Health – Americas
  • Alignment of countries in the Americas with the latest WHO guidelines for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection: a review [2024]

Asia

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing
  • Correlates of Hepatitis B Virus-related Stigmatization Experienced by Asians: A Scoping Review of Literature [2016]

Asia-Pacific

• Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver
  • Asian-Pacific clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis B: a 2015 update [2016]

Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • National HBV Testing Policy
  • Hepatitis B
  • Decision Making In Hepatitis B
  • B Positive | Hepatitis B for Primary Care

• Australian Family Physician
  • Chronic hepatitis B – what’s new? [2013]

• Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
  • Hepatitis B – CDNA National Guidelines for Public Health Units

• Gastroenterological Society of Australia
  • Australian consensus recommendations for the management of hepatitis B infection [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Rapid Review of Interventions to Increase Hepatitis B Testing, Treatment, and Monitoring among Migrants Living in Australia [2022]

• NSW Health
  • Hepatitis B control guideline

• WA Health
  • Hepatitis B

Brazil

• Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Brazilian Society of Hepatology and Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatitis B [2020]

Canada

• BC Centre for Disease Control
  • Hepatitis B

• Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver
  • Management of chronic hepatitis B: Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver consensus guidelines [2012]

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta public health disease management guidelines : Hepatitis B - acute and chronic

• Ontario Health
  • Hepatitis B Virus Screening and Management for Patients Receiving Systemic Treatment [2022]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Primary Care Management of Hepatitis B [2014]

• Public Health Ontario
  • Hepatitis B (Chronic)
  • Hepatitis B (Acute)

Central Asia and the Caucasus

• Viruses
  • HBV Prevention and Treatment in Countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus [2020]

China

• BioMed Research International
  • Serum/Plasma MicroRNAs as Biomarkers for HBV-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma in China [2015]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Control of Chronic Hepatitis B in China: Perspective of Diagnosis and Treatment [2020]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Analysis of Risk Factors Associated with the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Chronic HBV-Infected Chinese: A Meta-Analysis [2016]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Helicobacter pylori infection may increase the risk of progression of chronic hepatitis B disease among the Chinese population: a meta-analysis [2016]

• Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology
  • Epidemiology, Achievements, and Challenges in the Elimination of Hepatitis B in China [2025]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Viruses
  • Viral Hepatitis B and Its Implications for Public Health in DR Congo: A Systematic Review [2024]

Europe

• Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Differences in the availability of diagnostics and treatment modalities for chronic hepatitis B across Europe [2015]

• Epidemiology & Infection
  • Hepatitis B virus infection in EU/EEA and United Kingdom prisons: a descriptive analysis [2021]

• European Association for the Study of the Liver
  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection [2025]
  • EASL 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection [2017]
  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of chronic hepatitis B [2012]

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Hepatitis B

• European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Management of chronic hepatitis B in childhood: ESPGHAN clinical practice guidelines [2013]

• Weekly Epidemiological Record
  • Progress towards hepatitis B control – WHO European Region, 2016–2019 [2021]

Gambia

• Tropical Medicine and Health
  • Population-Based Interventions to Reduce the Public Health Burden Related with Hepatitis B Virus Infection in The Gambia, West Africa [2014]

India

• Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
  • INASL Position Statements on Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in India: The Andaman Statements [2018]

• Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology
  • Current Scenario of Hepatitis B and Its Treatment in India [2017]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Technical Guidelines for Diagnosis & management of Hepatitis B [2019]

Indonesia

• World Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Current hepatitis B virus infection situation in Indonesia and its genetic diversity [2016]

International

• Cureus
  • Challenges in Formulation and Implementation of Hepatitis B Elimination Programs [2021]

• Drug Safety
  • Consensus Guidelines: Best Practices for the Prevention, Detection and Management of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in Clinical Trials with Immunosuppressive/Immunomodulatory Therapy [2024]

• Journal of Hepatology
  • The 2024 updated WHO guidelines for the prevention and management of chronic hepatitis B: Main changes and potential implications for the next major liver society clinical practice guidelines [2025]
  • Strategies to control hepatitis B: Public policy, epidemiology, vaccine and drugs [2015]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Clearance of Hepatitis B e Antigen in Untreated Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]

• Journal of Viral Hepatitis
  • Global elimination of HBV: Is it really achievable? [2024]

• Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • A 2024 global report on national policy, programmes, and progress towards hepatitis B elimination: findings from 33 hepatitis elimination profiles [2025]

• World Gastroenterology Organisation
  • World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guideline Hepatitis B: September 2015 [2016]

• World Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Correlation between COVID-19 and hepatitis B: A systematic review [2022]

• World Journal of Hepatology
  • Hepatitis B in healthcare workers: Transmission events and guidance for management [2015]

Iran

• Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
  • The frequency, related cause of disease, and treatment of hepatitis B virus infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis in Iran [2022]

Italy

• Digestive and Liver Disease
  • Management of Hepatitis B virus infection in patients on treatment with immunosuppressants or immunomodulators: Position Paper of Associazione Italiana Studio del Fegato (AISF), Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica (AIOM), Gruppo Italiano per il Trapianto di Midollo Osseo (GITMO), Società Italiana di Reumatologia (SIR), Società Italiana Trapianti d'Organo (SITO), Società Italiana di Gastroenterologia (SIGE), Società Italiana di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali (SIMIT) [2025]

Japan

• Digestive Diseases
  • Chronic Hepatitis B Costs and Healthcare Resource Utilization in a Japanese Patient Population: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis [2025]
  • Characteristics and Healthcare Costs in the Aging Hepatitis B Population of Japan: A Nationwide Real-World Analysis [2022]

Jordan

• Journal of Virus Eradication
  • Hepatitis B care pathway in Jordan: current situation, gaps and recommended actions [2020]

Malaysia

• Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Management of Chronic Hepatitis B in Adults [2022]

Maldives

• Ministry of Health Maldives
  • National Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B [2021]

Maldives, Sri Lanka

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Achieving the hepatitis B control goal – successful journeys in Maldives and Sri Lanka: The path towards elimination [2025]

Mexico

• Revista de Gastroenterología de México (English Edition)
  • Asociación Mexicana de Hepatología A.C. Clinical guideline on hepatitis B [2021]

New Zealand

• Health New Zealand
  • Hepatitis B

North Korea

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Fighting Hepatitis B in North Korea: Feasibility of a Bi-modal Prevention Strategy [2015]

Republic of Korea

• Clinical and Molecular Hepatology
  • Self-testing strategy to eliminate hepatitis C as per World Health Organization's goal: Analysis of disease burden and cost-effectiveness [2025]

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Association of preS/S Mutations with Occult Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Infection in South Korea: Transmission Potential of Distinct Occult HBV Variants [2015]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Clinical Effect of Hepatitis B Virus on COVID-19 Infected Patients: A Nationwide Population-Based Study Using the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service Database [2022]

• Korean Association for the Study of the Liver
  • KASL clinical practice guidelines for management of chronic hepatitis B [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Association between chronic hepatitis B infection and COVID-19 outcomes: A Korean nationwide cohort study [2021]

Saudi Arabia

• Cureus
  • Revealing Hepatitis B Virus as a Silent Killer: A Call-to-Action for Saudi Arabia [2021]

• Journal of Infection and Public Health
  • A tool to measure the economic impact of Hepatitis B elimination: A case study in Saudi Arabia [2020]

• Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology
  • SASLT practice guidelines for the management of Hepatitis B virus – An update [2021]
  • SASLT Practice Guidelines for the Management of Hepatitis B Virus [2014]

• Saudi Medical Journal
  • Hepatitis B care pathway in Saudi Arabia: Current situation, gaps and actions [2019]

Singapore

• Communicable Diseases Agency
  • Hepatitis B

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Nature Communications
  • Systematic review and individual-patient-data meta-analysis of non-invasive fibrosis markers for chronic hepatitis B in Africa [2023]

• World Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Hepatitis B virus infection and hepatocellular carcinoma in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for elimination of viral hepatitis by 2030? [2021]

Sweden

• Hepatology Communications
  • Chronic hepatitis B virus infection and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma by age and country of origin in people living in Sweden: A national register study [2022]

Taiwan

• Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
  • Taiwan consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B [2018]

Tanzania

• Journal of Tropical Medicine
  • Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Tanzania: Current Status and Challenges [2018]

Türkiye

• Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Diagnosis, management and treatment of hepatitis B virus infection: Turkey 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines [2017]

United Kingdom

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Navigating past and current hepatitis B infection in primary care [2021]

• British Transplantation Society
  • Guidelines for Hepatitis B & Solid Organ Transplantation [2018]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Hepatitis B (chronic): diagnosis and management [2017]

• NHS England
  • Hepatitis B: from diagnosis to understanding, advocacy and challenging stigma [2025]
  • Investigation of hepatitis B infection [2021]

• Public Health Scotland
  • Hepatitis B

• Right Decisions
  • Hepatitis B Reactivation
  • Hepatitis B Infection Assessment and Management in Adults

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Hepatitis B: migrant health guide
  • Hepatitis B: guidance, data and analysis
  • Hepatitis B dried blood spot (DBS) testing for children

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2020]

• Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • An expert consensus for the management of chronic hepatitis B in Asian Americans [2018]

• American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
  • Update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B: AASLD 2018 hepatitis B guidance [2018]
  • Chronic Hepatitis B

• American Journal of Managed Care
  • The Hepatitis B Care Cascade Using Administrative Claims Data, 2016 [2020]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Screening and Testing for Hepatitis B Virus Infection: CDC Recommendations — United States, 2023 [2023]
  • Unexpected Hepatitis B Virus Infection After Liver Transplantation — United States, 2014–2019 [2021]
  • Hepatitis B

• Clinics in Liver Disease
  • WHO Guidelines for Prevention, Care and Treatment of Individuals Infected with HBV: A US Perspective [2019]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Management of Chronic Hepatitis B: An Overview of Practice Guidelines for Primary Care Providers [2015]

• Nurse Practitioner
  • Overview of chronic hepatitis B management [2025]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults [2020]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Policy brief – Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection [2024]
  • Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection [2024]
  • Immunoassays to detect hepatitis B virus surface antigen [2023]
  • Rapid diagnostic tests to detect hepatitis B surface antigen [2022]
  • In vitro diagnostic medical devices used for the quantitative detection of Hepatitis B DNA [2022]
  • Collaborative study to evaluate the proposed WHO 4th International Standard for Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) DNA for Nucleic Acid Amplification Technique (NAT) based assays [2016]
  • Guidelines for the prevention, care and treatment of persons with chronic hepatitis B infection [2015]
  • Collaborative study to evaluate the proposed 3rd WHO international standards for Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) for Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (NAT)-Based Assays [2011]
  • Collaborative study to establish a World Health Organization international Hepatitis B virus genotype panel for HBsAG Assays [2011]
  • Collaborative study to establish a World Health Organization international genotype panel for hepatitis B virus nucleic acid amplication technique (NAT)-based assays [2009]
  • Hepatitis B: Fact sheet

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Fourth Consultation of the Regional Expert Panel for Verification of Hepatitis B Control in the South-East Asia Region, Mumbai, India 16–18 January 2024 [2024]
  • First consultation of the Regional Expert Panel for verification of Hepatitis B Control in the South-East Asia Region New Delhi, India, 28–29 May 2019 [2020]

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Hepatitis B control: country profile 2023 [2024]
  • Fifth Hepatitis B Expert Resource Panel Consultation, Manila, Philippines, 15-17 February 2017 : meeting report [2017]

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