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My wife is suffering HBsAg positive. As per last report oct-2015 HBsAg value is 8.94 and it should be less than 1 as per lab. please advise i want to bring my wife in KSA but i cant until this test to be cleared. Dears pls guide me how can she get rid of. Thanks
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HBsAg value is 8.94 and it should be less than 1 as per lab

this is the old and obsolete qualitative test, get a better lab quantitative machines are used since 2000, the result is in the thousands usually and unit is iu/ml, that value will tell you if hbsag can be cleared by peginterferon or not.values lower than 1000iu/ml have highest chances to clear

the test you have now is useless, and the number 8.94 is useless as well, it has no unit and so it means nothing but positive which is useless to know for a chronic carrier
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Hi,
There is, unfortunately, no cure for chronic hepatitis b until now. But there are many drugs that keep the dissease under control, even leading to undetectable viral dna in the blood.
There are also a very few, about 2%, of chronically infected hbvers who clear the virus spontaneously. This means we cannot, unfortunately, say that your wife is going to clear hbv infection or hbsag.
Some of the mid-eastern arab regimes are really living in stone age; it is really sad and outrageous if they do not allow people with hbv to enter their countries, and make life even more difficult for those who have hbv.
The only thing would be to bring these human rights violations of these rogue regimes to the attention of international organizations so that the regimes could be pressured to change their oppressive practices.
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