hepatitis awareness

  location: ONLINE CAMPAIGN | Date: 07-28-2025

Hepatitis represents a major global public health crisis, affecting over 250 million with chronic B and C infections, leading to 1.5 million new cases and 1.3 million deaths yearly from cirrhosis, liver failure, and cancer—outpacing HIV and TB in some areas. 

Primarily transmitted via contaminated food/water (A/E), bodily fluids (B/C), or toxins, it hits low- and middle-income countries hardest, widening inequities. 

Key interventions like A/B vaccinations (averting millions of cases), harm reduction for needle-sharing and unsafe sex, sanitation improvements, and antivirals curing 95% of C cases offer a path to WHO s 2030 elimination goal, but stigma, underdiagnosis, and funding shortfalls demand urgent, integrated action in surveillance, education, and access.