{"id":31799,"date":"2025-07-29T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31799\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:30:10","slug":"who-urges-action-on-hepatitis-announcing-hepatitis-d-as-carcinogenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31799\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO urges action on hepatitis, announcing hepatitis D as carcinogenic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWHO urges action on hepatitis, announcing hepatitis D as carcinogenic<\/p>\n<p class=\"float-left\">July 29, 2025 | Tuesday | News<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWHO is partnering with Rotary International and the World Hepatitis Alliance to strengthen global and local advocacy<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/screenshot_29_7_2025_165254_-26435.jpeg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 pl-5 pr-5\" alt=\"image credit- shutterstock\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 text-center\">image credit- shutterstock<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we mark\u00a0World Hepatitis Day\u00a0on 28 July, the World Health Organisation\u00a0(WHO) calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Viral hepatitis \u2013 types A, B, C, D, and E \u2013 are major causes of acute liver infection. Among these only hepatitis B, C, and D can lead to chronic infections that significantly increase the risk of cirrhosis, liver failure, or liver cancer. Yet most people with hepatitis don\u2019t know they\u2019re infected. Types B, C, and D affect over 300\u00a0million people globally and cause more than 1.3\u00a0million deaths each year, mainly from liver cirrhosis and cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently\u00a0classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B and C. Hepatitis D, which only affects individuals infected with the hepatitis B, is associated with a two- to six-fold higher risk of liver cancer compared to hepatitis B alone. This reclassification marks a critical step in global efforts to raise awareness, improve screening, and expand access to new treatments for hepatitis D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Treatment with oral medicine can cure hepatitis C within 2 to 3 months and effectively suppress hepatitis B with life-long therapy. Treatment options for hepatitis D are evolving. However, the full benefit of reducing liver cirrhosis and cancer deaths can only be realized through urgent action to scale up and integrate hepatitis services \u2013 including vaccination, testing, harm reduction, and treatment \u2013 into national health systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHO is partnering with Rotary International and the World Hepatitis Alliance to strengthen global and local advocacy. This year\u2019s campaign\u00a0\u201cHepatitis: Let\u2019s break it down\u201d\u00a0demands action to confront the rising toll of liver cancer linked to chronic hepatitis infections. It also calls for decisive steps to dismantle persistent barriers \u2013 from stigma to funding gaps \u2013 that continue to slow progress in prevention, testing, and treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHO urges action on hepatitis, announcing hepatitis D as carcinogenic July 29, 2025 | Tuesday | News WHO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,7714,84,24488,1063,14052],"class_list":{"0":"post-31799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cancer","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-hepatitis","13":"tag-viral","14":"tag-who"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}