Viral hepatitis is recognized as a public health problem worldwide and is now becoming a threat like other communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In India, the incidence of hepatitis B and C is more than 32 million cases, out of which only 5,14,317 (2%) people are diagnosed. India is still under the list of countries who have not yet reached WHO's global diagnosis target of 30% by 2020. Viral hepatitis B and C are major health challenges, affecting 325 million people globally out of which 290 million are unaware and only about 30 million are aware of having hepatitis.
It is the main cause of liver cancer, leading to 1.34 million deaths every year. Majority of the chronic Hepatitis B or C patients are incognizant of the infection and thus at a serious risk of developing cirrhosis or liver cancer. Near about 60% of liver cancer cases are due to late testing and…
