91m Africans Infected With Hepatitis B, C, WHO Raises Alarm
July 28, 2022
4:53 am
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a scorecard that shows that no fewer than 91 million Africans are currently living with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus.
In a statement in commemoration of the World Hepatitis Day 2022, WHO disclosed that the Viral Hepatitis Scorecard 2021 which analyses data from the African region but focused on Hepatitis B and C, both of which cause liver cirrhosis and cancer found that in 19 countries, more than eight percent of the population were infected with Hepatitis B, while in 18 countries, more than one per …
