The first National Day is organized Hepatites Saturday, January 21. The day, which has the slogan hepatitis, everybody’s business, relayed through 39 cities with the conference discussions, aimed at informing the public about these diseases to improve access to treatment, especially by encouraging the screening – as in France, one in two patients is not known although it has a hepatitis under supervision or treatment, according to the organizers (and

These chronic viral hepatitis are diseases, and often silent (note: they pass unnoticed) still poorly known to the public, by Michel Bonjour, president of SOS hepatitis. In the absence of screening and treatment, they can evolve into cirrhosis, and some to liver cancer.

About 5,000 people die of the consequences of hepatitis, a figure that could rise significantly in the ten years in the absence of effective treatments exist while more effective systems for the cure of hepatitis C and hepatitis B in stabilizing more than one in two, adds Prof. Michel Doffoël, president of the French Association for the Study of the Liver (AFEF).

There is a vaccine against hepatitis B, transmitted through sex and objects contaminated with infected blood (needles, piercing, tattoo…) and the pregnant mother to her future baby, but not, however, cons Hepatitis C incurred, primarily through objects contaminated with infected blood.