World Hepatitis Awareness Day 2006

October 1 was marked as the World Hepatitis Awareness Day 2006 and it is during this time that hepatitis patient association worldwide promotes awareness to the growing population of individuas who are infected by this deadly disease.

It is but true that more than 600 million people worldwide are infected by the disease and more and more people are not aware that they are infected which may possibly reach 1.2 Billion. Although the call for an international venture on the hepatitis research has been successful, the development of a more potent drugs for the treatment and possibly, cure for hepatitis has not yet been done.

There are possibly a lot of hindrances to the development of an effective plan towards the eradication of hepatitis around the globe and some are I have listed below:

1. Economic Condition. Lack of Funding for the education and provision of treatment for people who have Hepatitis B in a certain country or area,
2. Personal Objection towars Vaccines. Some are not convinced on the effectiveness of hepatitis vaccines that are available for use.
3. Ineffective Program Planning of Governments Worldwide

Today is hightime for everybody to know what hepatitis is and how you can prevent yourself from being infected and how you can possibly protect your loved ones if already infected with the disease.

Vaccine still remans the best preventive measures agaisnt hepatitis infection although there are no availble vacciens for some species of hepatitis.

If you would like to know more information about hepatitis and ways on how you can prevent yourself from being infected, please visit the following websites below.

Hepatitis: Centers for Disease Control
Hepatitis: World Health Organization

Julius