Hepatitis B: new guidelines for treating HBV-positive pregnant women

Hepatitis B is a viral infection that can be fatal. Most chronic forms are caused by mother-to-child transmission. To avoid this transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to add new recommendations to its existing guidelines. Yusuke Shimakawa, an expert at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, was given the task of producing two systematic reviews to help determine the nature of the new recommendations. He coordinated this research, with the help of WHO, by forming a team including two other Institut Pasteur scientists (Anna L. Funk and Pauline Boucheron) and colleagues in China and Japan.

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