Millions pledged to fight Africa’s ‘silent scourge’
Viral hepatitis is preventable, but low vaccination rates mean thousands of unnecessary deaths. A new campaign aims to change that
30 May 2024 - 05:00
An ambitious project to vaccinate all infants in Africa against viral hepatitis has received a R451m shot in the arm.
Zimbabwean industrialist Adam Molai announced this at the African Viral Hepatitis Convention, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on May 15-18. The new campaign is aimed at eliminating the virus that attacks the liver and is responsible for high mortality on the continent. The project is the mass vaccination and detection of carriers of hepatitis B and C, diseases that are entirely preventable...
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