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.
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Country: Bolivia
City: La Paz
Type: WHD
Bolivia - WHD 2011
The Non-Governmental Organisation Manodiversa marked World Hepatitis Day with a press release using the worldwide campaign theme and logo ‘This is hepatitis… Hepatitis affects everyone, everywhere. Know it. Confront it.’
The local media, such as the newspaper ‘La Patria’, featured information about the first World Hepatitis Day supported by the World Health Organisation as well as the need of a coordinated global approach to tackle viral hepatitis.