Kang Gatlok, 4 years old, during a medical consultation. Days before reaching the hospital, he tested positive for malaria. Despite receiving medication, fever persisted and his urine became dark. Then his mother decided to take him to the MSF hosptial in Bentiu camp where he was diagnosed with hepatitis E. Photograph by Damaris Giuliana
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The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology: An open letter to Gavi: hepatitis B birth dose vaccine can't wait

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Photograph by Damaris Giuliana

In this Correspondence letter in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, MSF’s Access Campaign and other organisations call on Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to immediately start its hepatitis B birth dose vaccine programme, to protect the lives of the more than quarter of a million children infected each year by hepatitis B virus at birth.