Prevalence and Factors Associated with Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Positivity among Women Receiving Antenatal Care at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Posted on 12/03/2020 by guest244@aphrc.org PUBLICATIONS RESOURCES // PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles Prevalence and Factors Associated with Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Positivity among Women Receiving Antenatal Care at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Health and Wellbeing March 2020 The WHO estimates the prevalence of hepatitis infection at 2 billion globally with 350 million patients developing chronic infection . It is the 10th leading cause of death worldwide and approximately 686,000 deaths per year are caused by chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Viral hepatitis type B is a common and immensely serious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), a partially double stranded DNA virus of the Hepadnaviridae family. Chronic hepatitis B virus infection results in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HBV has the rare ability among infectious agents to circulate in the blood of the virus carriers at a very high titer. Furthermore, the blood of the carriers contains a very large excess of the viral surface antigen (HBsAg) and a secreted form of the viral core protein which is called e-antigen (HBeAg). Download CONTRIBUTORS SIMILAR PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles Women’s autonomy and reproductive health-care-seeking behavior in Ethiopia Journal Articles Women’s attitudes and beliefs towards specific contraceptive methods in Bangladesh and Kenya Briefing Papers Why do some men and women never test for HIV? Insights from Demographic and Health Surveys in Zambia and Lesotho General Who are the missing men? Characterizing men who have never tested for HIV from population-based surveys in six sub-Saharan African countries Technical Reports Voices for action: A report of community engagement on vulnerability and solutions to food and nutrition insecurity maasai community, Kajiado, Kenya* General Voices for action Journal Articles Vitamin a supplementation and stunting levels among two year olds in kenya: evidence from the 2008-09 kenya demographic and health survey* Journal Articles Use of anchoring vignettes to evaluate health reporting behavior amongst adults aged 50 years and above in africa and asia testing assumptions* Policy brief Unsafe abortion as a risk factor for maternal mortality in Liberia