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PREVAC B Management of hepatitis B prevention among migrants. AUBERT Jean-Pierre, DI PUMPO Alexandrine, SANTANA Pascale, MAJERHOLC Catherine, PY Anne-Marie, TAULERA Olivier, WAJSBROT Alain, GERVAIS Anne, PETREQUIN Cécile Dept of General Practice, University Paris VII, Paris, France
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PREVAC BManagement of hepatitis B prevention among migrants AUBERT Jean-Pierre, DI PUMPO Alexandrine, SANTANA Pascale, MAJERHOLC Catherine, PY Anne-Marie, TAULERA Olivier, WAJSBROT Alain, GERVAIS Anne, PETREQUIN Cécile Dept of General Practice, University Paris VII, Paris, France WONCA Europe, Istanbul, Sept 3, 2008
Background (1) • In France (INVS 2004) • Among people with Social Security: • HBs AG carriers • 0,65 % general population • 5 % people born in Africa • 1 % people born in Asia • Anti HBc AB carriers • 7 % general population • 50 %people born in Africa • 29 % people born in Asia • Nothing is known about people without social security • …but those people attend GPs (they can have consultations for free)
Background (2) • Behaviour of GPs and hospital doctors regarding hepatitis B prevention is not well known • Some datas are available, related to hepatitis B vaccination • But… vaccination is just a part of prevention skills
What is prevention of hepatitis B? • People who carry no hepatitis B marker have to bevaccinated • everybodyshouldreceive information about thisdisease and its transmission • …BUT … • The messages to deliverdifferfrom one group to another: • HBs AG carriers (‘HB carriers’) • People with no HBV marker (‘HB free’) • People protectedagainst HBV, by vaccination or infection) (‘HB protected’)
How to manage HBV prevention? • Three main serologic groups of people in theory…. • ….but actually numerous serologic profiles • ….54 different serologic profiles can be found in medical files • Development of an internet program, • to help doctors manage prevention, • To help doctors decide wich prevention skill has to be used • internet-accessible information leaflets for patients, related to the serologic profile (uploaded by doctor)
Endpoints • Main endpoints • Is it possible for GP to manage complete HBV prevention strategies among migrant people coming from subsaharian Africa and Asia, with help of an internet-based program? • What are the factors that influence such strategies? • Secondary endpoints • What are HBV markers prevalences among those populations?
Method • 26 GP investigators • All of them related to health networks • All of them working in northen Paris and north-east suburb (high rates of migrants) • data prior to 31/12/2007 are presented (preliminary results)
Inclusion/exclusion criteria • Inclusion criteria • Born in subsaharian Africa, or Asia • Age >18 • To assess one of the investigators between 5/11/2007 and 29/2/2008 • Exclusion criteria • If HIV carrier: Not to be immuno depressed (CD4 cells count<350/mm3)
PREVAC B: GP Patients • 373 GP patients, among them: • 61% women • 83% born in subsaharian Africa (17% Asia) • 24% no social security • 50% less than 7 years of school 15% no school at all
Results Preventive skill • application of preventive skill: • 63% patients • 92% exluding missing results Information • Leaflets given to • 61% patients • 89% exluding missing results • 74% HBV carriers • 100% vaccinated people • 54% patients with anti HBc alone • 82% HBV contact, non-carrier • 74% no HBV marker
Results Screening before study • 41% patients had been screened for HBV before study Vaccination before study • 49% patients that required vaccination had been vaccinated before the study • Thus 51% actually required vaccination …. During study • 12% patients who required vaccination refused it • Vaccination was actually started for 75% of patients who required it • Predictive factor for failure of vaccination strategy • Social precarity p=0,02 • Predictive factor for success • High level of education (college, university) p=0,01
HBV carriers 11% HBV Contact non-carriers 36 % Vaccinated 28% No marker 25% HBV markers prevalences
Anti HBc Antibody alone: an issue for managing prevention of HBV What’s the problem? • Your patient has one of the following results • Hbs AG neg, anti HBs AB neg, anti HBc AB pos • Hbs AG neg, anti HBs AB not given, anti HBc AB pos • There is no consensus within guidelines • Vaccinate or not vaccinate (one-shot)? How did we solve the problem? • We decided to give the investigator the choice • Case 1 : make an injection or consider the patient protected • Cas 2: complete serology or consider the patient protected
What do doctors do? • Facing isolated anti HBc AB (n=28) • 14% complete serology • 32% decide the patient is protected • 47% vaccinate • 7% missing data
Predicitive factors of contact • Africa/ Asia p=0,002 • Mali, Ivory Coast, Congo/other countries in Africa p=0,0002 • Age more than 40 p=0,04 • Less than 5 years of school p=0,01
Conclusion • With help of an internet-based program, GP can manage full prevention of hepatitis B transmission. • preliminary results • 41% patients screened before study • Among patients whose serology requires vaccination, only one out of two had actually started vaccination • Isolated anti HBC AB requires clear guidelines • Prevalences of HBV carriage is quite superior to available datas when EVERY MIGRANT is included.