Survey of coverage, strategy and cost of hepatitis B vaccination in rural and urban areas of China

Table 1 Coverage rates of hepatitis B vaccine immunization among infants and primary school students in 109 DSPs of China

Target population	Areas	NO. of DSPs	Sample size	Coverage		Coverage with 3 doses
				NO. of vaccinees	%	NO. of vaccinees	%
Infants	Total	109	8248	5376	65.2	5190	96.5
	Urban	40	2572	2492	96.9	2434	97.7
	Rural	69	5676	2884	50.8	2756	95.6
Students	Total	108	17883	8143	45.5	7815	96.0
	Urban	40	4621	3965	85.8	3933	99.2
	Rural	68a	13262	4178	31.5	3882	92.9

^aIn one DSP, no hepatitis B vaccination for primary school students was conducted in 1994.

Table 2 Results of predelivery screening HBeAg and HBsAg among mothers of 2252 infants in 1994

	Urban	Rural
Number of screening	1775	477
Isolated HBsAg-positive	13	14
Isolated HBeAg-positive	5	0
HBeAg- and HBsAg-positive	7	0
HBsAg-positive rate	1.1% (20/1775)	2.9% (14/477)
HBeAg-positive rate	0.7% (12/1775)	0.0%

Table 3 Regimen of infant HB vaccination or/and in combination with HBIG in 71 DSPs

Screening	Maternal HBVMs	Regimen	NO. of DSPs
			Total	Urban	Rural
Yes	HBeAg-and HBsAg-positive	30 μg+10 μg × 2	6	5	1
		HBIG × 1+30 μg+10 μg × 2	10	2	8
		30 μg × 3	7	3	4
		Others	9	7	2
	Isolated HBsAg-positive	30 μg+10 μg × 2	11	9	2
		HBIG × 1+30 μg+10 μg × 2	9	2	7
		30 μg × 3	6	3	3
		10 μg × 3	2	0	2
		Others	4	2	2
	HBeAg- and HBsAg-negative	10 μg × 3	25	12	13
		HBIG × 1+10 μg × 3	1	1	0
		30 μg+10 μg × 2	6	3	3
No		10 μg × 3	36	3	33
		HBIG × 1+30 μg × 3	1	0	1
		30 μg+10 μg × 2	2	0	2