Hepatitis vaccination coverage reaches 94% among children

Between 2014 and 2024, says the bulletin, hepatitis B detection rates in Brazil fell 34.6%from 8.1 to 5.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. More than half of cases of the disease are sexually transmitted, but there is still contamination by sharing objects and cases of mother to child transmission.

“Just as we celebrated a month ago we have eliminated vertical transmission by HIV, which we can eliminate vertical transmission of hepatitis B,” Health Minister Alexandre Padilha said at the data dissemination event.

The folder said that from 2014 to 2024, there was a 55% drop in disease detection in pregnant women and 38% in cases under 5 years, indicating the decline of vertical transmission of the disease.

Padilha also highlighted the existence of the hepatitis care network and reinforced the incentive for testing. “We have vaccines, tests, clear guidelines on how to infect for the various viral hepatitis,” he said, reinforcing the importance of this information reaching the population.

Symptoms

Viral hepatitis are infections that reach the liver. Most of the time, the infected person has no symptoms, but when they arise, they include tiredness, fever, malaise, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, yellowish skin and eyes, dark urine and clear stools.