Initially launched in 2022, the campaign aims to spread a word about prevention and control of Hepatitis B, especially among mothers and newborns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mumbai:<\/strong> To curb mother-to-child transmission of viral hepatitis, the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) along with \u2018Illness To Wellness\u2019, a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme, have relaunched the \u2018Winning Over Mothers With Hepatitis B\u2019 (WOMB) initiative. Initially launched in 2022, the campaign aims to spread a word about prevention and control of Hepatitis B, especially among mothers and newborns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ailment infects over 40 million people in India and most patients continue to suffer as the society largely remains weighed down by misconceptions related to the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is a national awareness drive aimed at generating awareness on various mind and body conditions (of Hepatitis B patients) and providing holistic and broad stakeholder engagements, with the overall objective of promoting healthy living,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Shiv K Sarin, Director and Chancellor, ILBS, and Dr Arti Ahuja, ex-secretary, ministry of labour and employment expressed grave concerns at the discrimination faced by Hepatitis B patients. They spoke about the need to ensure vaccination and importance of information dissemination through persistent efforts to end the shame associated with the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initially launched in 2022, the campaign aims to spread a word about prevention and control of Hepatitis B, especially among mothers and newborns. Mumbai: To curb mother-to-child transmission of viral hepatitis, the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) along with \u2018Illness To Wellness\u2019, a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme, have relaunched the \u2018Winning Over Mothers […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}