Hamilton's St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton manages Hepatitis B patients from across the Golden Horseshoe region. Hamilton's significant steelworker heritage and large immigrant communities from Southeast Asia — particularly Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines where Hepatitis B is endemic — create substantial long-term HBV treatment demand. Tafsure provides Hamilton patients with the most advanced TAF-based therapy at affordable cost.
Hamilton's strong Vietnamese community — from a country with one of Southeast Asia's highest Hepatitis B burdens — particularly benefits from affordable Tafsure access that makes decades-long lifelong therapy financially sustainable. TAF's superior kidney safety profile is especially important for Hamilton's ageing Vietnamese community where kidney disease co-morbidity is more prevalent.
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Hamilton's strong Vietnamese community — from a country with one of Southeast Asia's highest Hepatitis B burdens — particularly benefits from affordable Tafsure access that makes decades-long lifelong therapy financially sustainable. TAF's superior kidney safety profile is especially important for Hamilton's ageing Vietnamese community where kidney disease co-morbidity is more prevalent.
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Why is Hepatitis B so prevalent in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries?Southeast Asia carries among the world's highest Hepatitis B burdens, with prevalence rates of 8-20% in countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. This reflects several compounding factors: perinatal (mother-to-child) transmission during childbirth historically occurred before infant vaccination and immunoglobulin programmes were widely available; childhood transmission through close household contact and shared items was common in densely populated environments; healthcare-related transmission through unsterile needles and transfusions occurred before modern blood safety standards; and mass vaccination programmes only became widespread from the 1990s-2000s in many countries, leaving older generations unprotected. This means a large proportion of adults who emigrated from these countries before vaccination era carry chronic HBV — which is why screening all immigrants from endemic regions is an important healthcare priority in Hamilton and across Canada.
