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MNA Feature Desk: The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) are observing World Hepatitis Day on Saturday, reported news agency.
All member states, including Bangladesh, are conducting different hepatitis awareness events on the occasion, the National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh said in a statement.
The campaign hopes to eliminate hepatitis or bring viral hepatitis under control by 2030.
Currently 325 million men, women and children across the world are living with viral hepatitis. According to the statement, approximately 300 million are unaware that they have the disease.
This huge undiagnosed population are at high risk of developing liver cirrhosis and liver cancer and are silently transmitting and infecting others in various ways. Around 1.34 million deaths occur every year due to viral hepatitis.
