Ghana lost over 15,000 people to Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C- related liver diseases in 2022, indicating 42 deaths per day. Most of the victims, who died prematurely as young men and women, suffered from liver failure and liver cancer. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who disclosed this at the […]
The founder and CEO of Sunyani-based Global Media Foundation (GloMeF), an anti-corruption Non-Governmental Organisation, has expressed worry about low coverage of Hepatitis B Birth Dose (BepB-BD) or vaccination among babies, nationwide. Raphael Godlove Ahenu said statistics from the World Health Organisation showed that despite the global availability of an effective vaccine, only about 16 per […]
It’s certainly not hep, hep, hooray in Philadelphia. The City of Philadelphia has just declared a public health emergency due to a Hepatitis A outbreak. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, a disease outbreak is “the occurrence of disease cases in excess of normal expectancy.” What constitutes a Hepatitis A outbreak in Philadelphia? How about over […]
