Front. Epidemiol. Frontiers in Epidemiology Front. Epidemiol. 2674-1199 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fepid.2026.1798141 Retraction Retraction: Awareness and infection prevention practices of hepatitis B virus among informal caregivers in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024 Frontiers Editorial Office * Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office, editorial.office@frontiersin.org 02022026 2026 61798141 28012026 28012026 28012026 © 2026 Frontiers Editorial Office. 2026Frontiers Editorial Officehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Retraction of the Original Research Article Awareness and infection prevention practices of hepatitis B virus among informal caregivers in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024 by Kasse T, Solomon T, Mesfin A, Lonsako AA, Orkaido O, Agegnehu Y and Haile A (2024). Front. Epidemiol. 4:1492579. doi: 10.3389/fepid.2024.1492579 section-at-acceptanceInfectious Disease Epidemiology

Following publication, concerns were brought to our attention regarding the authors' use and publication of primary research data without permission and without a mention to their contributors. Unauthorized data use is a breach of Frontiers' guidelines and those of the Committee on Publication Ethics. The authors have not provided a satisfactory response to confirm legitimacy of the study, as such, this article is being retracted.

In addition, this study was simultaneously submitted in BMC Infectious Diseases [Kasse, T., Solomon, T., Mesfin, A. et al. Awareness and infection prevention practices of hepatitis B virus among informal caregivers in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024: a cross-sectional study. BMC Infect Dis 25, 57 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-10477-6], which has since been retracted for duplicate publication.

This retraction was approved by the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors have not responded regarding this retraction. Frontiers would like to thank Habtamu Sewunet for contacting the journal regarding the published article.

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