Opinion: Chelsea Clinton: How to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030
Viral hepatitis affects almost 400 million people and kills more than 1 million each year. It doesn't have to be this way.
Viral hepatitis affects almost 400 million people and kills more than 1 million each year.
Yet it was left off the agenda of the Millennium Development Goals. Now, 20 years later, we have a cure for hepatitis C and a highly effective vaccine and treatment for hepatitis B — but annual deaths from the two are projected to outnumber deaths from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined by 2040. As is also the case with HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, the vast majority of people with viral hepatitis live in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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