World Hepatitis Day 28 July
World Hepatitis Day provides an opportunity to focus
on specific actions like Strengthening prevention, screening and control of
viral hepatitis and its related diseases.
Increasing hepatitis B vaccine coverage
&integration into national immunization programmes; and coordinating a
global response to hepatitis to increase access to treatment.
Participants in World Hepatitis Day aim to raise
awareness of viral hepatitis, the viruses A, B, C, D and E can cause acute and
chronic infection & inflammation of
the liver leading to cirrhosis &
liver cancer.
These viruses constitute a major global health risk
with an estimated 35 crore people being chronically infected with hepatitis B
and an estimated 17 crore people being chronically infected with hepatitis C.
About 50 crore people worldwide are living with either
hepatitis B or / hepatitis C., including liver cancer or / liver failure.
While many people worry more about contracting AIDS
than hepatitis, the reality is that every year 15 lac people worldwide die from
either hepatitis B or C faster than they would from HIV / or AIDS.
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