Hepatitis C Vaccine In Pakistan, Pdf Current Trends In The Treatment Of Hepatitis C Interventions To Avoid Adverse Effects And Increase Effectiveness Of Anti Hcv Drugs

Although vaccines exist for hepatitis a and hepatitis b development of an hcv vaccine has presented challenges.

Covid 19 vaccine update news. One promising prime boost viral vector vaccine is. Hepatitis c infects as many as seven million people in pakistan making it one of the worst affected countries on the planet credit. While there is no vaccine against hepatitis c antiviral medicines can cure more than 95 of people with the disease.

A hepatitis c vaccine a vaccine capable of protecting against the hepatitis c virus hcv is not yet available. The government of punjab is the first province in pakistan to address this issue by introducing a policy to ensure that 90 of all syringes used in the health sector are auto disable meaning that they cannot be used more than once. We reviewed the medical and public health literature over a 13 year period january 1994september 2007 to estimate the prevalence of active hepatitis b and chronic hepatitis c in pakistan analyzing data separately for the general and high risk populations and for each of the four provinces.

The drug is being given on special prescription to date but shall be available freely in a week. An effective vaccine may be necessary to eliminate hepatitis c virus hcv but development has been hampered by several challenges including the variability of the virus and incomplete natural immunity according to presentations at the 5th international symposium on hepatitis care in substance users inhsu 2016 last week in oslo norway. The cost of cure for hepatitis c could be as high as us15000 in a country like the us.

Its cost has been reduced by 99 as compared to that in usa. Most vaccines work through inducing an antibody response that targets the outer. Ben farmer ben farmer in karachi 18 march 2019 159pm.

Pakistan continues to have transmission of all forms of viral hepatitis. Although pakistan produces cheaper medicines to cure hepatitis c infection with a very low cost of us20 per cure within three months very few people in the country know of their infection and therefore do not access testing and treatment services. Unsafe injections play a major role in transmitting hepatitis c.

Since 2007 cdc has worked with gop to establish a viral hepatitis surveillance system based in the four provinces and capital of pakistan which became operational in 2009. Sovaldi the new oral drug for hepatitis c treatment has been registered in pakistan on fast track and through special negotiations.