Compere: Dr Bobby John Globally, nearly 2 billion people have been learnt to have been infected with the hepatitis B virus (1 out of 3 people in the world) and nearly 292 million people are chronically infected. About a million die each year from it due to cirrhosis and/or liver cancer; Nearly 2 people die […]

Compere: Sh Dibang Elimination of infectious diseases is possible, by prevention and timely treatment. Both hepatitis B and C, spread through blood and body luids, are preventable and treatable. What is needed is awareness. The stigma of being detected with hepatitis B and C and the risk of social dejection is the major cause for […]

Living with Hepatitis: The lives of people with Hepatitis B & C “The stigma of being infected with hepatitis B is the worst thing that can happen to a women, better to die than live with it” said a young women who was detected hepatitis B positive few months before child birth. Tens of thousands […]