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World Hepatitis Day Initiatives

The World Hepatitis Alliance supports campaigners and patient organisations around the world to help make a difference to the lives of the millions of people living with viral hepatitis and to prevent new infections. To find out more on what is going on in your country, use the map below to find local organisations, World Hepatitis Day initiatives and other initiatives.

You can also look at our ‘Wall of Stories’ and submit your own personal experience of living with hepatitis or find other community resources including an Online Scrapbook and our latest Newsletters. The This is hepatitis... blog features bloggers from around the world talking about their experiences with hepatitis.

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Malaysia - WHD 2011

Through its theme ‘Know your liver, B aware, C a Dr’ the Malaysian campaign endeavoured to draw public attention to viral hepatitis.
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Malaysia - WHD 2011

Through its theme ‘Know your liver, B aware, C a Dr’ the Malaysian campaign endeavoured to draw public attention to viral hepatitis.
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Malawi - WHD 2011

Hepatitis patients in Malawi took the opportunity presented by World Hepatitis Day to highlight their concerns to government about the lack of action to halt the spread of hepatitis in the country. They also asked the Ministry of Health to establish a policy aimed at reducing contagious diseases amongst Malawians.

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Madagascar - WHD 2011

World Hepatitis Day was celebrated on 28th July with the testing of presidential officials in the city of Ambohitsorohitra in an effort to raise awareness of the disease in the country where it is estimated that 8% of the population is infected with hepatitis B.
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Kazakhstan - WHD 2011

For the first time the group AGEP'C (???????? O?) took part in World Hepatitis Day.
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Jordan - WHD 2011

In this year’s World Hepatitis Day, the Friends of the Liver Diseases Patient’s Society launched a large awareness raising campaign from the beginning of July.
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Japan - WHD 2011

Japan FM network announced the first official World Hepatitis Day on its popular radio show ‘Oh! Happy Morning’. Professor Hiroshi Yanagi from the University of Tokyo was a guest on the show and talked about hepatitis prevention as well as treatment developments.

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Ireland - WHD 2011

Following the success of last year’s campaign, the Community Response Group organised an awareness raising Run/Walk in Dublin to raise awareness of hepatitis C.
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Iraq - WHD 2011

Despite the difficulties faced in Iraq, workshops and lectures were given in Albasrah and Kirkuk provinces to mark World Hepatitis Day. These activities were held by the viral hepatitis units in both provinces and primary health care workers took part
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Indonesia - WHD 2011

This year the Ministry of Health held a diverse campaign entitled ‘It’s Time to Fight Hepatitis’ and the Health Minister, Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, named hepatitis as one of the priority health problems in Indonesia.
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