{"id":19145,"date":"2026-07-20T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:25:57","slug":"resources-you-can-use-world-hepatitis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2026\/07\/20\/resources-you-can-use-world-hepatitis-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources You Can Use: World Hepatitis Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 28 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-hepatitis-day\/2026\">World Hepatitis Day<\/a>, which is a great opportunity to learn more about hepatitis and share information on the kinds of hepatitis, how it affects health, prevention, treatment and more.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-hepatitis-day\/2026\">World Health Organization<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<strong>World Hepatitis Day 2026<\/strong>\u00a0theme,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cHepatitis: Let\u2019s break it down,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is a call to remove the barriers that stand between people and the services that can save their lives. Viral hepatitis continues to be a major cause of preventable illness and death worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what is hepatitis? And how can you help spread the word about prevention?<\/p>\n<h2>What is hepatitis?<\/h2>\n<p>Hepatitis is inflammation of the\u00a0liver causing damage that can affect how well your liver functions.<\/p>\n<p>Hepatitis can be caused by a viral infection, or by environment, other illnesses, and substance use.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about viral hepatitis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/hepatitis.html\">Hepatitis (MedlinePlus)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/hepatitisa.html\">Hepatitis A (MedlinePlus)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/hepatitisb.html\">Hepatitis B (MedlinePlus)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/hepatitisc.html\">Hepatitis C (MedlinePlus)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/about\/\">Viral Hepatitis Basics (CDC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immunize.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/catg.d\/p4075.pdf\">Hepatitis A, B, and C: Learn the Difference (Immunize.org)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Making Progress Against Viral Hepatitis<\/h2>\n<p>Viral hepatitis is damage to the liver caused by viruses and progress is being made through programs that promote prevention and vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in how health departments and the CDC work to reduce the rates of viral hepatitis?<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about hepatitis interventions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/php\/data-research\/npr-2026\/index.html\">2026 Viral Hepatitis National Progress Report (CDC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/php\/data-research\/heptracker\/index.html\">HepTracker: Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Data Dashboard (CDC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vaccines are available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis-a\/vaccination\/index.html\">hepatitis A<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis-b\/vaccination\/index.html\">hepatitis B<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 28 is World Hepatitis Day, which is a great opportunity to learn more about hepatitis and share information on the kinds of hepatitis, how it affects health, prevention, treatment and more. From the World Health Organization: The\u00a0World Hepatitis Day 2026\u00a0theme,\u00a0\u201cHepatitis: Let\u2019s break it down,\u201d\u00a0is a call to remove the barriers that stand between people&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2026\/07\/20\/resources-you-can-use-world-hepatitis-day\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[110,394,545],"class_list":["post-19145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-health-literacy","tag-resources","tag-world-hepatitis-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19148,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions\/19148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}