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Hepatitis B and C: a silent epidemic

Hepatitis is caused by viruses that damage the liver.

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By: Igor Strauss

Hepatitis B and C affect 325 million people worldwide, and caused 1.3 million deaths in 2015, according to the WHO.

Only one in 20 people with hepatitis knows it, and 1% of patients have access to treatment.

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What are the advances in terms of treatment?

What access to screening in developing countries?

  • Pr Tarik Asselah

    , Professor of Medicine and Hepatology at the

    Beaujon Hospital in Clichy in the Hauts-de-Seine

    , Director of Research at

    INSERM

    .

    responsible for viral hepatitis

  • Pr Roger Sombié

    , gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the

    Yalgado Ouédraogo hospital

    in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso

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