a minute agoO BSH: Hepatitis kills 3,500 people a day
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(2 years ago)More than 3,500 people die daily from hepatitis viruses, and the global number is increasing, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday. New data from 187 countries showed that deaths from viral hepatitis rose to 1.3 million in 2022 from 1.1 million in 2019. [...]
More than 3,500 people die daily from hepatitis viruses, and the global number is increasing, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday.
New data from 187 countries showed that deaths from viral hepatitis rose to 1.3 million in 2022 from 1.1 million in 2019.
According to O report BSH, 83 percent of deaths are registered by hepatitis B and 17 percent by hepatitis C.
There are effective and cheap drugs to treat these viruses.
However, only 3 percent of chronic Hpatitis B received antiviral treatment by the end of 2022, the WHO report says.
Only 20 percent of those affected were treated for hepatitis C.
These results conflict with global targets to treat 80 percent of all people living with hepatitis B and C chronic until 2030”, Meg Doherty, leader of global HIV programmes, hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, near O BSH's.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebrasesus said the report “provides a disturbing view”.
Despite global progress in preventing hepatitis infections, the death toll is increasing because very few people with hepatitis are being diagnosed and treated”, he said.
According to WHO report, two-thirds of all hepatitis cases are in: Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, and Vietnam./ REL/
