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: Burkina Faso
City: Ouagadougou
Type: WHD
Burkina Faso - WHD 2011
SOS Hépatites Burkina, newly established in response to the huge health problem that viral hepatitis represents both nationally and in the whole of Africa, made a vigorous call to their Government on World Hepatitis Day to address the blatant lack of awareness amongst the population.
A press release was published in three of the most popular national newspapers ‘Le Quotidien’, the ‘Observateur paalga’ and ‘Le Pays’ in an effort to reach the public and raise awareness of these diseases in the country where according to the organisation “it is estimated that 1,600,000 people are infected with hepatitis B”. They called for the government to recognise viral hepatitis as a heath priority and implement a specific national programme in addition to the already existing National Health Development Programme.