About 19 million Nigerians are currently living with hepatitis, the National Coordinator of National AIDS and STDs Control Programme (NASCP) of the federal Ministry of Health, Dr Adebobola Bashorun, has said.

He stated this Friday in Abuja during a briefing organised by the ministry to commemorate this year’s World Hepatitis Day.

The theme of this year’s commemoration is “One life, one liver.”

Hepatitis is a disease that causes an inflammation or damage of the tissues of the liver . The five types of viral hepatitis are A, B, C, D, and E.

Bashorun said only 60 per cent of Nigerians know about hepatitis while, lower than 50 per cent know their status.

He said, “That is why we are trying to create awareness and demand for testing. So apart from getting information about hepatitis you should also know your own hepatitis status.”

He said hepatitis vaccine is in the routine immunisation schedule for children , adding that there is vaccination to prevent hepatitis B in adults.

“So for you to be vaccinated against hepatitis B , and properly immunized, you first of all go for screening and once you are negative, you are eligible to be vaccinated against Hepatitis B,” he added.

He said the federal government had also developed a National Strategic Framework for Viral Hepatitis covering 2022 to 2026.

The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Olufunso Adebiyi said viral hepatitis, especially hepatitis B and C remained major public health risks with person to person transmission fueled by limited knowledge among health care providers in addition to the low awareness amongst the general public.

Represented by the Director of Public Health, Dr Morenike Alex-Okoh, he said these factors had led to stigmatization, late diagnosis and higher mortality rates.

He said the prevalence rate of hepatitis B and C in the country were recorded as 8.1 per cent and 1.1 per cent respectively, according to the 2018 National AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey ( NAIIS).

WHO Nigeria Country Representative, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo said it was time for Nigeria to do something differently in tackling viral hepatitis.

He enjoined the federal government to include hepatitis services in the minimum service package of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund ( BHPF) to ensure increase access and reach in the country.

While commending Nigeria for including hepatitis B vaccination for children in the routine immunisation schedule, he said the country still needs to increase efforts to acheive the global target of 90% to achieve those targets by 2030.

Dr Mulombo said more than 91 million Africans are living with hepatitis.

He said in 2019, an estimated 1.2 million new hepatitis infections and 125, 000 hepatitis-related deaths occurred in the African Region, adding that deaths occur mostly among the young and productive segments of the population.

The WHO country Rep said despite the availability of diagnostic tools and effective treatment, more than 90% of people living with hepatitis in Africa do not receive the care they need, and less than 10% of the population has access to testing and treatment.

He enjoined policymakers and partners to demonstrate political commitment to sustain and simplify hepatitis testing, prevention and treatment as part of the broader liver health and primary care to achieve viral hepatitis elimination.
https://dailytrust.com/19m-nigerians-living-with-hepatitis-fg/

Nlfpmod, mynd44, seun help your boys ooo, the way they are sleeping around with reckless abandon is worrisome. Let them know that it comes with it's consequence. Only a dirty human will be sleeping around because I don't know why anyone will be so comfortable kissing and exchanging fluids with multiple people you know not their health and sexual history. Men especially have gone Gaga in sleeping around and I wonder if they've gotten some immunity for all these diseases. A wise person will go for all the necessary tests before entering into relationship these days, the way HIV is flying everywhere in that Lagos especially on the island is unimaginable. Sleeping around and catch disease Ina ruwa na

Omo disease choke
If you’re a Nigerian and you’re healthy you don’t know what God has done for you

Why don't Nigerians like vacination

Herpititis have vacination, it's even free in Dubai.. a single shot last years



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Curse777:




Why don't Nigerians like Vaccination

Herpititis have Vacination, it's even free in Dubai.. a single shot last years



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Simply advise them to stop sleeping around and stop cutting corners.

IconicR:
Simply advise them to stop sleeping around and stop cutting corners.

Why should I stop sleeping around when I produce millions of sperms daily and also my commandments from God include procreation and spreading my seed?!

Do you want human race to end if we stop sleeping with women?!

All our ancestors how many had just one wife?!

My sister better be ready for your husbands second wife


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Curse777:


Why should I stop sleeping around when I produce millions of sperms daily and also my commandments from God include procreation and spreading my seed?!

Do you want human race to end if we stop sleeping with women?!

All our ancestors how many had just one wife?!

My sister better be ready for your husbands second wife

Ok continue sleeping around 19million is no joke, the world will not stop if anyone decided to play with his life. Keep spreading your seed with reckless abandon and get ready for whatever consequence it might bring.

IconicR:
Ok continue sleeping around 19million is no joke, the world will not stop if anyone decided to play with his life. Keep spreading your seed with reckless abandon and get ready for whatever consequence it might bring.

Anyways herpititis isn't only transmitted through sex.

Physical contact through sweat

Alcohol binging

So even if you refuse to have sex Herpes can get anyone unvaccinated


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Curse777:


Anyways herpititis isn't only transmitted through sex.

Physical contact through sweat

Alcohol binging

But it's majorly through sex

IconicR:
Nlfpmod, mynd44, seun help your boys ooo, the way they are sleeping around with reckless abandon is worrisome. Let them know that it comes with it's consequence. Only a dirty human will be sleeping around because I don't know why anyone will be so comfortable kissing and exchanging fluids with multiple people you know not their health and sexual history. Men especially have gone Gaga in sleeping around and I wonder if they've gotten some immunity for all these diseases. A wise person will go for all the necessary tests before entering into relationship these days, the way HIV is flying everywhere in that Lagos especially on the island is unimaginable. Sleeping around and catch disease Ina ruwa na

Food for thought 🤔

It's essential you get tested for hepatitis today...save your family and your future.

Iknow of one


Westernlove

Failed government...

Failed people....

Where una draw your figures from?

Wetin be una statistics base?

Is it this same Nigerian government wey no know the number of voters?

When failure wan make a point, na big big grammar him go dey blow up and down... Explanation wey no suppose pass 3 paragraphs, him go use a whole page explain am...

Madness dey worry all of una...


Mad people...

Sexually transmitted disease everywhere

Inpoverish living condition is more deadly than any disease. Society with better living standard have citizens with strong immune system.

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Nawaoooo!

People should go get their shots, practise sexual hygiene. Use condoms, stop giving head to strangers and try to go for medical checkups from time to time

Good

Make our population reduce small

Noted

time for Hepatitis cash out. Malaria and
HIV doesn't sell anymore.

17 million? Then Government needs to do more sensitization and massive free vaccination on this matter if they really care.

Lol

Abeg, I need girlfriend. I dey Ogba, Lagos

50% don’t know their status yet you say 10% of the population has hepatitis?

What stupid kind of statistics is this?

These guys don’t know the implication of rubbish like this. They’ll ban Nigerians from multiple countries for this unscientific statement. Even hiv that is well tested in nigeria is just 1.4% or less than 2million

May God heal everyone afflicted with one form of illness or the other in Jesus' Name.

Meanwhile,
You all are invited to our Sunday service at Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel), for our covenant day of settlement, where you become settled in every area of your life in Jesus' Name.

For those outside Lagos and Ogun State, you can visit any of our local churches or stream online via YouTube (Living Faith Church Worldwide), Facebook (Winners chapel Int'l) etc. For sure, your life will never remain the same for good. Jesus is Lord!

doctormoe:
Hepatitis B is crazier than you can think .... Pls be vaccinated ! ..... Save yourself alot ...

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Does it kill

tishbite42:
Lol

Abeg, I need girlfriend. I dey Ogba, Lagos

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What type.
Rich or poor

Sirchiboy:
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What type.
Rich or poor

Anyone o