• Over 20m Nigerians living with hepatitis, risk liver cancer
• WHO: Collaborative action needed to meet 2030 target
• Treatments are expensive for average Nigerian, says liver expert
Ahead of the World Hepatitis Day, marked every July 28, concerns and worries have heightened on the rapid spread of the world’s most deadliest virus after COVID-19.
This is just as experts lament the slow pace towards achieving the 2030 target set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to eliminate all types of hepatitis.
Despite hepatitis being an entirely preventable disease, it is still the leading cause of liver cancer globally and although reports have shown that about 20 million Nigerians are positive, many are unfortunately clueless about the disease or its implications while a less than sizeable number of those with the virus are aware of their hepatitis status.
This is exacerbated…
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