Before COVID-19, we kept asking the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to do more on hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The group that works on hepatitis B could use more funding to expedite a cure. In the United States, we buy millions of HIV tests annually and distribute them for free or at low cost, paid for by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [...]with adult vaccination programmes and investment in testing, you could reduce the rate of community infection over 50 years, or maybe as long as 70 years, until nobody has hepatitis B. We can eradicate this infectious disease, as a planet, as we did with smallpox.
Facing the challenge of eliminating hepatitis B