May 20, 2011

Russia is not the first time marks International Day for the fight against hepatitis , Summing up the results of this day to spread and incidence of this viral disease.

The fourth consecutive year in Russia marked Hepatitis Day, initiated in 2008, International Alliance   on hepatitis (World Hepatitis Alliance). Across the country are public events, aimed to attract the attention of its citizens and the media to the problems of distribution and hepatitis. And urged the government and non-governmental organizations to the need to support and care for people with a diagnosis "Hepatitis" .

According to Rospotrebnadzor, Russia in 2010, the incidence Hepatitis A   It decreased by almost 16%. Patients with hepatitis B also decreased by 18, 6%. There is still an urgent need to hepatitis B vaccination, are not vaccinated 13 million. Russian citizens.

As the chief doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko All newborns since 2001 are vaccinated against hepatitis B vaccine by three. Since 2006, 46 million. Russian citizens who did not get vaccinated after birth, have been vaccinated against Hepatitis B . In Russia today there are more than 1 million people were newly infected with hepatitis before. And assured the chief doctor of the country, these people need to prevention and one can not infect.

Rospotrebnadzor They approved the new sanitary regulations for the prevention of viral hepatitis A, with effect from the beginning of 2011. The new rules are tightening control measures for the prevention of infection with this viral disease. Hepatitis A is dangerous because it is transmitted contact-household, food, water ways. Since that failure to comply with basic rules of personal hygiene is a major cause of disease outbreaks.

World statistics also looks disappointingly like a Russian. About every 12th inhabitant of the planet is a carrier of hepatitis B or hepatitis C. The incidence exceeds Statistics diseases HIV / AIDS   infections, as well as the number of cancer patients. Despite this, there is still humanity hardly aware of the danger fraught with viral hepatitis.

Experts say that the low level of awareness about the disease is primarily due to the fact that the disease is asymptomatic for a long time, makes itself no indication does not cause discomfort to the patient, gradually destroying the health of the media than fully justifies its name "Tender murderer" . Meanwhile, hepatitis is the leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Scientists around the world do not stop their search according to the invention really effective means of combating disease. Modern medicine successfully fights and eliminates these dangerous viruses. Not long ago Russian scientists have created a new cure for liver cirrhosis . And in the US market drugs came just two New treatment for hepatitis C .