Denpasar – World Hepatitis Day is celebrated on July 28 every year. Hepatitis is a disease that occurs inflammation of the liver. Some of this inflammation is caused by an infectious viral attack.
This disease can be transmitted under certain conditions, including using the same needle as other people, blood transfusions, using water sources contaminated with the hepatitis virus, having unprotected sexual intercourse, or transmitting it from a mother to a fetus.
There are five main types of viral hepatitis, consisting of types A, B, C, D, and E. Reporting from the WHO website, global efforts prioritize the elimination of hepatitis B, C, and D infections. These 3 viral infections cause chronic hepatitis that can last several decades and causes 1 million deaths per year from cirrhosis and liver cancer.
The commemoration of World Hepatitis Day has a long history of celebration. Check out some of the information below regarding the history, purpose, and theme of World Hepatitis Day 2023.
History of World Hepatitis Day
Quoted from the page Detik news, World Hepatitis Day is chosen every July 28 because it is the birthday of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Baruch Blumberg. He discovered the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and developed a diagnostic test and vaccine for the virus.
Hepatitis B virus was discovered in 1967 and two years later he developed the first hepatitis vaccine. Dr. Blumberg reached the pinnacle of his career in 1976 when he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
For this achievement, people in the world have been greatly assisted by the discovery of viruses and vaccines to overcome diseases caused by these viruses. Therefore, the birthday celebration of Dr. Blumberg was also celebrated by people around the world and became known as World Hepatitis Day.
Purpose of World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day is celebrated with the aim of increasing public awareness around the world about hepatitis. So that later, more people are directly involved in efforts to prevent and treat hepatitis.
If there are more people who know about hepatitis and how to treat it, then more lives will be saved when exposed to hepatitis.
In the end, the celebration of World Hepatitis Day can be a celebration for people around the world to raise awareness about information about hepatitis.
World Hepatitis Day theme
The theme for World Hepatitis Day 2023 is “One Life, One Liver” which means “One Life, One Heart”. The message to be conveyed with this theme is that people are more aware of hepatitis because this disease can destroy one life and one human heart.
In other words, every human being has one life and one heart. This hepatitis disease can destroy both.
Therefore, the public is obliged to know that hepatitis must be treated immediately. Knowledge of early identification of the symptoms of hepatitis can save thousands of lives worldwide.
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