2023-07-29 16:07:00
The aim is to raise awareness of the disease and strengthen measures to improve access to testing and treatment services.
Arnaud Mongo Onkouo indicated that this world day is related to the date of birth of Dr Baruch Blumberg who discovered the virus and implemented the vaccine which fights once morest cancer.
“Hepatitis B and delta are preventable by vaccination, because to have hepatitis by delta infection you must first have an infection by hepatitis B”, he said, adding that “the delta virus does not have its own material because it destroys the B virus material to create mumps”he said.
In Congo, the rate of prevalence of the Congolese population on hepatitis does not yet exist. However, a parcel survey in the departments had shown the rate of 8, 12 and 15%. According to him, the national program for the fight once morest viral hepatitis intends to carry out a survey on the issue in the coming days.
In addition, screening in large cities is carried out by the serology test while in the departments by the rapid diagnostic orientation test.
As a reminder, the commemoration of the World Day once morest Viral Hepatitis was marked by several communications. The first day enlightened the participants on the theme “Interest of rapid tests in the diagnosis of the hepatitis B virus”, by Pr. Esther Nina Ngoyi Ontsira.
The speaker evoked the mode of direct contamination which is done by sexual means, mother to the child, and indirect by way of blood transfusion, soiled material and professional activity. Factors favoring contamination include pregnant women, health professionals, risky sexual behavior, etc.
On this occasion, the participants benefited from knowledge on the attitudes and practices of midwives on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the hepatitis B virus in Brazzaville, pathologies of the digestive tract, continuing education in hepato-gastroenterology and many others.
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