World Hepatitis Day is a clear call to improve efforts towards eliminating a disease that globally kills one person every 30 seconds.
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The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to the discoverers of the hepatitis C virus. There’s an effective cure but homelessness and the opioid epidemic are driving a surge in infections.
HIV/AIDS receives more funding than hepatitis, which is responsible for more deaths.
About 19 million Nigerians have hepatitis but most of them don’t know it.
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day, and with an effective cure for hepatitis C there is much to celebrate. But homelessness and the opioid epidemic are driving a surge in hepatitis infections.
Of the more than 175,000 people living with chronic hepatitis B infection in this country, the majority were born overseas in high prevalence countries. Most have come from Asia and the Pacific, a region…
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Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Women's and Children's Health, Burnet Institute
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Senior Researcher, Immunisation and Women's and Children's Health, Burnet Institute
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Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Senior Communications Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Lecturer, Gastroenterology & Hepatology Unit and Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist, University of Ibadan
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Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity