Publication Name	World Journal of Gastroenterology
Manuscript ID	63009
Country	Mexico

Received	2021-01-22 16:01
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Category	Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Manuscript Type	Review
Article Title	Progress and challenges in the comprehensive management of chronic viral hepatitis: Key ways to achieve the elimination
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Fátima Higuera-de la Tijera, Alfredo Servín-Caamaño and Luis Servín-Abad
ORCID	Author(s) ORCID Number Fátima Higuera-de la Tijera http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0478 Alfredo Servín-Caamaño http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-0868 Luis Servín-Abad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1880-8505
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Corresponding Author	Fátima Higuera-de la Tijera, MD, MSc, PhD, Academic Research, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital General de México, Dr. Balmis 148 Col. Doctores, Del. Cuauhtémoc, Departamento de Gastroenterología 310-D., Mexico City 06726, Mexico. fatimahiguera@yahoo.com.mx
Key Words	Hepatitis C; Hepatitis B; Vaccination; Elimination program; Telemedicine; Direct antiviral agents
Core Tip	The World Health Organization proposes eliminating hepatitis infection as a threat to public health by 2030. Despite notable advances reached to achieve those goals, many challenges persist, such as guarantee access to complete vaccination schemes for hepatitis B virus (HBV), universal screening for all adults at least once in life to screen for hepatitis C virus. Those non-vaccinated against HBV guarantee access to effective therapies programs to all patients who need it, emphasizing risk groups like prison inmates, sex workers, injecting drug users, and men who have sex with men, trying to reduce the high incidence of viral hepatitis in these groups. Telemedicine and telementoring approaches are valuable strategies to facilitate more patients access to healthcare systems and should be encouraged. Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affects all strategies significantly to eliminate viral hepatitis, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. With available effective vaccines for anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2, strategies to immunize most people are crucial to restarting the viral hepatitis elimination programs throughout the world as soon as possible.
Publish Date	2021-07-12 00:42
Citation	Higuera-de la Tijera F, Servín-Caamaño A, Servín-Abad L. Progress and challenges in the comprehensive management of chronic viral hepatitis: Key ways to achieve the elimination. World J Gastroenterol 2021; 27(26): 4004-4017
URL	https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v27/i26/4004.htm
DOI	https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v27.i26.4004

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