Progress in vaccination towards hepatitis B control and elimination in the Region of the Americas

Ropero Álvarez, Alba Maria; Pérez-Vilar, Silvia; Pacis-Tirso, Carmelita; Contreras, Marcela; El Omeiri, Nathalie; Ruiz-Matus, Cuauhtémoc; Velandia-González, Martha

doi:10.1186/s12889-017-4227-6

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Hepatitis B official vaccination schedule, year of vaccine introduction, reported three-dose series vaccination coverage, year of birth dose vaccination introduction, and reported birth dose vaccination coverage by country/territory in the Americas, 2010–2015

From: Progress in vaccination towards hepatitis B control and elimination in the Region of the Americas

	Three-dose series among infants ages <1 year^a								Birth dose
	Current vaccination schedule	Introduction	Vaccine coverage (%)						Introduction	Vaccine coverage (%)
	Current vaccination schedule	(Year)	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	(Year/Status)	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Northern America
Bermuda	6, 7, 12 m	1997	93	90	92	91	97	85	----^{g, h}	-	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	0, 2, 6 m²or 2, 4, 6 m	1993^b	-	70	70	75	74^f	73	1983^g, 1993^b	-	-	-	-	-	-
United States^a	0, 1–2, 6–18 m	1991	92	91	90	91	92	92^f	1991	56	60	63	65	64	64^e
Mexico	0, 2, 6 m	1999	93	98	99	79	84	82	2007	84	98	94^e	89	94^e	98
Central America
Belize	2, 4, 6 m	1999	96	95	98	95	95	94	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	0, 2, 6 m	1992^d, 1997	89	84	91	94	91	92	1988^g, 1997	86	88^e	90	90^e	89	89^e
El Salvador	2, 4, 6 m	1999	89	89	92	92	93	91	2015	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guatemala	0, 2, 4, 6 m	2005	94	88	96	93	73	74	2010	15	30	35	37	22	32
Honduras	0, 2, 4, 6 m	2000	100^e	100^e	88	87	85	85	2007	99	98	98	100	100	72
Nicaragua	2, 4, 6 m	1999	100^e	100^e	100^e	100^e	100^e	100^e	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1999	94	87	85	80	80	73	2002	89	93	87	79	84	85
Andean area
Bolivia	2, 4, 6 m	2000	80	82	80	81	85	89	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Colombia	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1992^d, 1994	88	85	92	91	90	91	1994^d, 2001	74	77	85	82	86	87
Ecuador	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1999	100^e	100^e	100^e	87	83	78	2005^d, 2009ⁱ	5	7	16	69	79	75
Peru	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1991^c, 1996^d, 2003	93	91	95	88	88	90	1996^c, 2003	74	76	81	82	78	79
Venezuela	0, 2, 4, 6 m	2000	78	78	81	82	78	87	2008	73	78	67	80	82	89
Southern cone and Brazil
Argentina	0, 2, 4, 6 m	2000	94	93	91	94	94	94	2000	82	85	88	85	87	84
Brazil^a	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1989^c; 1991^d, 1998	96	98	96	100^e	96	96	1998	-	-	-	39	88	91
Chile	2, 4, 6 m	2005	92	94	90	90	95	96	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Paraguay	2, 4, 6 m	2002	76	76	74	73	74	80	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Uruguay	2, 4, 6, 15 m	1999	95	95	95	95	95	95	1991^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Latin-Caribbean
Cuba	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1990	96	100^e	100^e	96	100^e	100^e	1992	99	99	99	100	99	99
Dominican Republic	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1994	83	80	74	80	89	81	1997	80	82	74	78	82	79
French Guiana	0, 2 11 m	1994	-	-	-	-	-	-	2008	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guadeloupe	2, 4, 11 m	----	-	-	-	-	-	-	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Haiti	6w 10w 14w	2012	0	0	0	85	60	72	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martinique	2, 4, 11 m	-----	-	-	-	-	-	-	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Puerto Rico^a	0, 1–2, 6–18 m	1994	-	-	-	-	93	-	1999	-	-	-	-	77	-
Non Latin-Caribbean
Anguilla	2, 4, 6 m	1997	100^e	100	100^e	100	100^e	100^e	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	2, 4, 6 m	2000	98	99	98	98	100^e	100^e	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aruba	1, 3, 9 m	2003	96	95^f	94^f	94^f	93^f	92	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bahamas, The	2, 4, 6 m	2001	98	95	96	97	96	95	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barbados	2, 4, 6 m	2001	86	91	87	91	94	97	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bonaire	2 m, 14w, 5 m, 11 m	2012	-	-	-	-	-	-	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cayman Islands	0, 6w, 9 m	1997	75	75	94	86	88	87	1997^j	-	-	-	-	87	85
Curaçao	2, 4, 6 m	2011	0	0	-	95	-	-	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	2, 4, 6 m	2006	98	98	97	97	97	98	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Grenada	6-8w 16-20w 24-28w	2001	97	95	97	100^e	97	92	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guyana	2, 4, 6 m	2001	95	93	97	98	98	95	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jamaica	6w 3 m 5–6 m	2003	94	92	96	93	92	91	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montserrat	2, 4, 6 m	1999	100^e	100	94	97^f	100	100	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Saba	2, 3, 4, 11 m	2012	0	0	100	-	-	-	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. Kitts & Nevis	0, 2, 4, 6 m	1999	96	98	100^e	97	98	94	2015	0	0	0	0	0	100
St. Lucia	3, 5, 7 m	2002	97	100	98	100^e	99	100^e	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. Vincent & Grenadines	2, 4, 6 m	2003	100^e	96	96	100^e	98	100^e	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sint Eustatius	2, 3, 4, 11 m	1997	-	-	-	-	-	-	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sint Maarten	2, 3, 6 m	2000	90	92	91	92	95^f	97	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Suriname	2, 4, 6 m	2003^d; 2005	86	86	84	86	85	89	2005	0	0	51	45	64	65
Trinidad & Tobago	3, 4–5, 6 m	2003	90	90	92	92	92	90	No	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turks & Caicos Islands	2, 4, 6 m	1999	95	87	95	100^e	91	94	----^g	-	-	-	-	-	-
Virgin Islands (UK)	2, 4, 6 m	1999	87	92	97	82	80	97	No	0	0	0	0	0	0

^aVaccination coverage data for the US and Puerto Rico were obtained from the National Immunization Survey (NIS) among children aged 19–35 months [11]. Birth dose coverage data for Brazil was obtained from the National Immunization Programme, Ministry of Health
^bEach province in Canada decides which vaccination policy implements within the NACI recommendations (National Advisory Committee on Immunization). Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador maintain a school-based immunization programme. Currently, only New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut are administering a dose at birth
^cPilot studies/vaccination campaigns
^dYear of introduction in risk/selected areas
^eThe country/territory reported more than 100% coverage
^fLinear interpolation was used to estimate missing coverage values that two or more values from other years were available. If no coverage data were available for the last year included in this report, the estimate remained the same as the previous year [13]
^gOnly infants born to HBsAg positive mothers or mothers having acute hepatitis during pregnancy
^hHB vaccine in was routinely administered at birth in and around 1998
ⁱThe dose was given within 1 month of age until 2013. In 2016, the information systems were changed in order to recognize vaccination within 24 h
^jThe dose is given 48 h from birth
Abbreviation: NA (non-applicable)

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