Liver Lineup: Navigating Hepatitis B Prevention After ACIP’s Birth Dose Shift
In this episode of Liver Lineup: Updates & Unfiltered Insights, hosts Nancy Reau, MD, and Kim Brown, MD, take on a recent consequential and controversial public health decision: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) vote to remove the universal birth-dose hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for infants born to mothers who test negative for HBV.
Key episode timestamps:
0:00:00 – Introduction and initial reactions
0:01:40 – Hep B as an anti‑cancer vaccine & global perspective
0:03:59 – Transmission, testing gaps, and…
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