28 July World Hepatitis Day
The inaugural International Hepatitis C Awareness day,
coordinated by various European & Middle Eastern Patient Groups, took place
October 1, 2004.
However many patient groups continued to mark
'hepatitis day' on disparate dates.
For this reason
in 2008, the World Hepatitis Alliance in collaboration with patient groups
declared May 19 the first global World Hepatitis Day.
Following the adoption of a viral hepatitis resolution
during the 63rd World Health Assembly in May 2010, World Hepatitis Day was
given global endorsement as the primary focus for national& international awareness-raising efforts and
the date was changed to July 28 (in honour of Nobel Laureate Prof. Baruch
Samuel Blumberg, discoverer of the hepatitis B virus, who celebrates his
birthday on that date).
The resolution resolves that: 28 July shall be
designated as World Hepatitis Day in order to provide an opportunity for
education & greater understanding of viral hepatitis as a global public
health problem, and to stimulate the strengthening of preventive and control
measures of this disease in Member States
World Hepatitis Day is now recognised in more than 100
countries each year through events such as free screenings, poster campaigns,
demonstrations, concerts, talk shows, flash mobs & vaccination drives,
amongst many others.
Each year a
wrap up report is published by the WHO and the World Hepatitis Alliance
detailing all the events across the world.
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