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July 28th is World Hepatitis Day. The opportunity for the badociation SOS Hepatitis to launch a campaign to raise awareness about hepatitis C screening. The goal is to screen the 75 000 patients who ignore each other in France and allow them to be treated.
Around 400,000 people die from hepatitis C each year. Well tolerated and effective 97% treatments exist however. The problem is that this disease is often asymptomatic and therefore thousands of people are chronic carriers of the virus without knowing it. There are 75,000 in France. Hence the importance of raising the awareness of most people about screening. If the patients are detected early, they can benefit from an effective treatment and thus avoid that hepatitis C evolves towards a cirrhosis or a cancer of the liver.
The badociation SOS Hepatitis launches a campaign on the ground and on social networks. It is accompanied by #DubruitContrelHepatiteC . People who have accepted to be screened are encouraged to shout loudly on social networks, and all former patients are invited to become "ambbadadors of healing". Also, this Saturday, July 28th, SOS Hepatitis will organize an event to sensitize the general public to the detection of hepatitis C. It will take place in Paris Plages.
The campaign will continue in the coming months through many actions of field organized by the badociation throughout France
Created on July 27, 2018
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SOS Hepatitis
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