KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA PRAGATI VIHAR NEW DELHI CELEBRATED WORLD HEPATITIS DAY : 28 JULY , 2022

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA PRAGATI VIHAR NEW DELHI

CELEBRATED

WORLD HEPATITIS DAY : 28 JULY , 2022

World Hepatitis Day

Every year on July 28th, we celebrate World Hepatitis Day in honor of Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s birthday. Dr. Blumberg discovered the hepatitis B virus in 1967 and subsequently developed the hepatitis B vaccine two years later in 1969. We commemorate World Hepatitis Day by raising awareness about viral hepatitis. With almost 300 million individuals living with hepatitis B worldwide, it is so important to bring awareness to this preventable and treatable disease.

Every year, World Hepatitis Day is celebrated on July 28 to create awareness and educate people about the effect of viral hepatitis, which can cause liver inflammation leading to severe liver-related ailments and liver cancer.

World Hepatitis Day 2022 Theme and Slogan

This year 2022, the World Hepatitis Day 2022 theme is “Bringing Hepatitis Care Closer to You”, mainly focuses on educating people and creating awareness to implement and cater hepatitis care services to primary health facilities, community-based places, and reach beyond the hospitals such as in rural areas to make hepatitis care service available to all sections of the society and ensuring everyone gets proper diagnoses and treatment.

World Hepatitis Day 2022 theme aims to diagnose at least 60% of people living with hepatitis B and C, and at least 50% of people diagnosed must be cured by 2025.