In France, nearly 300 000 people are infected with hepatitis B and there are 500 new cases per year. But more than half of patients do not discover their status at the stage of complications. How to tell if you’re at risk?
Transmissible and silent infection with hepatitis B (HBV) is still largely under diagnosed and inadequately treated. An intolerable situation when we know that effective treatments exist.
While the High Authority of Health calls for the generalization of the proposed routine testing for HIV / AIDS, Hepatitis SOS (Association of patients with a chronic liver disease) is a lack of consideration of all stakeholders in the system Health on the issue of screening for viral hepatitis.
According to the Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin of May 19, 2009 (Institute of Health Surveillance) over 500 000 people are carriers of chronic viral hepatitis (232 hepatitis C 000, 281 000 hepatitis B) and nearly 50% do not know and not yet detected. More than 250 000 people living in France with a virus that can potentially destroy their livers.