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Almost 300 million people are living with hepatitis B, and they can live long lives if their hepatitis B is managed. This guide can help you understand important management steps.
This guideline discusses how DBS is a way of gathering a blood sample for hepatitis C testing. With DBS, the person being tested just needs to have a finger pricked, no locating veins or tubes of blood required.
This webpage discusses hepatitis A and how it is an inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). The virus is primarily spread when an uninfected (and unvaccinated) person ingests food or water that is contaminated with the feces of an infected person. The disease is closely associated with unsafe water or food, inadequate sanitation, poor personal hygiene and oral-anal sex.
This infographic demonstrates how survey respondents explained how much they worry about the impact of their chronic hepatitis B on their health in the future, and how this impacts their peace of mind and anxiety levels.
This infographic demonstrates the importance of hepatitis B screening.
This infographic discusses the most important outcomes of future hepatitis B treatments.
This infographic demonstrates how survey respondents explained how much they worry about the possibility of infecting their loved ones, even during their daily activities, and why this shapes how they show and receive love, and eventually impacts their psychological wellbeing.
This infographic demonstrates the social impact of living with hepatitis B.
This infographic demonstrates the physical toll of living with hepatitis B.
This webpage discusses how viral hepatitis has a disproportionate impact in Hispanic/Latinx communities. As of 2018, the year data was most recently available, Hispanic/Latinx individuals were 1.4x more likely to die from Hepatitis C than non-Hispanic white people. Hispanic/Latinx communities face multiple barriers to viral hepatitis prevention, treatment care, and research, such as language, access to available quality care and insurance, patient education, history of incarceration or injection drug use, and high-risk behavior.
