“These regulations are found in employment settings where people with viral hepatitis are routinely excluded from employment and immigration processes, in which people with viral hepatitis are excluded from receiving work visas in overseas countries. Renowned medical journal Lancet said that the viral hepatitis was an inflammation of the liver the kills 1.34 million people worldwide every year. About 96 percent of the deaths were attributed to infection with the hepatitis B virus and/or the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis D is transmitted on through contact with infected blood and only occurs in people who are already infected with hepatitis B. Hamid said that the elimination of viral hepatitis depends on the efficacy of developing new models of care.

Source: Manila Times February 22, 2019 17:09 UTC