The United Nations has planned to largely contain the various forms of viral hepatitis by 2030.
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The Council’s Public Relations Officer, Musbahu Yakasai, said this in a statement on Thursday in Kano.
Ehanire spoke on Tuesday at the World Health Organisation virtual high-level commemoration of World Hepatitis Day and launch of the guidelines for prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B.
Okpala made the declaration in his office while receiving the Rotary Club of Awka Smith Town, led by Rotarian Uzoamaka Okonkwo.
No fewer than 3,000 Osun residents are to benefit from the Federal Government free Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis B test.
Moronkola, who works at a Lagos-based private hospital, Optimal Care, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
Differentiating between hepatitis B and C, the expert described hepatitis B as more infectious and can be transmitted through contact with infected blood, semen or other body fluid, while C could only be transmitted through contact with infected person’s blood
He said hepatitis could be contacted through viral or chemical infections in the body fluid and can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, blood transfusion or use of unsterilised needles or blades
Nwokediuko made the observation in Enugu on Wednesday at the launch of a book entitled: “Hepatitis B, who cares?