Hepatitis B birth dose vaccination offers Africa a fighting chance in battling liver infection and related cancer that kill about 80,000 people on the continent every year.
Chronic Hepatitis B infection develops in 90 percent of newborns who get infected at birth. It is also common in children under five years (30 percent) and is lowest in older children and adults (2-10 percent). Many people can have the infection for years without knowing.
