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Public Health Steering Team-Uganda World hepatis Day Activity Hepatitis Prevention Literacy Goal: Elimination of Hepatitis Objective: Hepatitis Prevention Literacy Coverage 2023 Theme: “We’re not waiting.” Call: “accelerate elimination efforts of viral hepatitis now and the urgent need for testing and treatment for the real people who need it.” Uganda is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of hepatitis globally. In the 2005 Uganda National Sero Survey, the prevalence of hepatitis B was reported at 10%. In 2018, the prevalence was reported at 4.3% (5.6% among men and 3.1% among women).19 Oct 2022. Worldwide 2 billion people are exposed to hepatitis B infection, 350 million have chronic infection, and 65 million are in sub-Saharan Africa. Uganda is highly endemic with 10% national prevalence of hepatitis B infection. Viral hepatitis is one of the leading causes of death globally, accounting for 1.34 million deaths per year that’s as many as HIV/AIDS, tubercu...

  Picture Taken in 1987: Sister Ursula Sharp, Medical Missionary of Mary (MMM), the Founder of Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation providing psychosocial support (PSS) to newly identified Persons Living with HIV in Kasensero, Rakai District. Excerpt: This is a story given by Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa Who is  the Executive Director of MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda,  Worked as a Health Promotion Nurse from 2007-2017 at Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation (KM) in Uganda  founded by the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) from Ireland in 1987,  which Pioneered Home Based Care  Programmes for Persons living with HIV (PLHIV)   Interviewer (A Global Health Specialist): TB, HIV, and Malaria Prevention have taken me to 25 African countries. There are several iterative interventional models that I can point fingers at but the one that embeds the Family-Based Therapy Techniques which in essence utilise the household as a healing space within familiar communities strike...