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Over one million infants are born to HIV-1-infected women every year in Sub Saharan Africa. In Zimbabwe, annual births stand at 379,000 with approximately 48,000 infants being born every year to HIV-1-infected women on lifelong highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Concerns have been
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is truly a global human pathogen that affects at least 2 billion people worldwide including ~240 million chronic hepatitis B (CHB) carriers that are at risk for end-stage liver disease. The diagnosis of CHB is confirmed by the persistence of the HBV surface antigen
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronically infects an estimated 240,000 in Canada and 170 million worldwide. Untreated, CHC is associated with significant long-term clinical consequences including cirrhosis, liver failure and hepatocellular cancer (HCC), and it is the most common indication for liver