This year’s theme, Hepatitis-free future, focuses on preventing hepatitis B among mothers and newborns.
when he volunteered to donate blood for an ailing friend’s son admitted at the National Hospital, Abuja.
If you are not aware, you will not get tested and if you are not tested, the disease will not be detected. “The doctors said my test result showed my immune systems had been protecting me against the disease and that was why I was having no symptoms,” he said. “They said I was lucky to have come for screening on time, I was prescribed drugs to boost my immune system.”World Hepatitis Day takes places every year on July 28, to bring the world together under a single theme and to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis in order to influence real change.
Nigeria is among African nations that signed to a global health sector strategy target set by the WHO in 2016 to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030, and provided to run from 2016–2021. “Almost 20 million Nigerians are working around with the hepatitis virus. Also, less than 5 million of those people know their status.
Nigeria does not have the political will and a robust budget line to support the elimination of this silent killer disease that infects more than 20 million people in our country every year, Ifeanyi Ekeh, a public health expert said.
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