Ouedraogo Issa, president of the Association for Health Prevention for All in Burkina Faso, is leading efforts to raise awareness, testing, and vaccination for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, and HIV. For World Hepatitis Day, the association actively engaged rural communities, sharing vital information, and providing screening and vaccination services to help protect people’s health and break the cycle of hepatitis.
Waklisa Development Association successfully celebrated World Hepatitis Day 2025 through mass community gatherings in three kebeles, reaching 4,200 community members. By distributing 170 locally translated T-shirts with IEC materials, conducting competitions, and engaging the community, the initiative strengthened preventive awareness and supported the World Hepatitis Alliance’s mission. The event demonstrated the tangible impact of donor-supported health interventions in Afar.
Health Care and Development Association celebrated WHD raising awareness about hepatitis in their community and providing free screening services to test. They utilised WHD branding in their posters and banners.
World Hepatitis Day was observed on July 28, 2025, in Ngando Subcounty with the aim of raising awareness about hepatitis and promoting prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The event, graced by notable leaders and attended by over 600 community members, featured educational activities, free screenings for hepatitis B, HIV, and syphilis, and an engaging dialogue on public health.
For WHD, HASO conducted a half day hepatitis sensitisation workshop with 30 prison inmates in Seychelles in the spirit of leaving no one behind.
During WHD 2025, with support and sponsorship from partners and collaborators, Bekwarra Hepatitis B initiative provided counselling, consultancy as well as screening and testing services for free to 249 beneficiaries. They also provided linkage to care to those who tested positive for hepatitis B.
SHEAD Centre team and other stakeholders Nigeria led a series of impactful awareness and advocacy initiatives such as community sensitisation and testing, advocacy visits to policy makers and leaders, digital awareness campaign and hepatitis education, across different states in Nigeria.
In support of this year’s World Hepatitis Day, The FAJIM Medicare Foundation organised a community medical outreach and awareness campaign in Adalemo, Sango Ota, Nigeria reaching over 180 people with hepatitis screening, education, and care.
RAHGI organised a series of activities for WHD including hepatitis awareness, to screening and advocacy across two regions of Nigeria, South-East (Imo State) and North-Central (Benue State).
The Viral Hepatitis Technical Working Group of the Initiative conducted hepatitis awareness rally and screening services for members of the community in Lafia, Nasarawa state, Nigeria.
World Hepatitis Day 2025 with Mega Lifesciences Nigeria started on the 28th of July with their annual HBV screening in partnership with Healthcare professionals ranging from Gastroenterologists, Pharmacists, Nurses and other healthcare staff. With one singular aim of bringing awareness to the Epidemic in Nigeria, which is Hepatitis
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In commemoration of World Hepatitis Day 2025 under the theme ”Hepatitis: Lets Break it Down”, WACHEF, with support from the TY Danjuma Foundation, APHPN and other partners reached over 500 people in Taraba State with awareness campaigns, a community symposium, and free testing and vaccination services. 283 individuals were screened with 22 testing positive to hepatitis B, 2 for hepatitis C and 1 co-infection. These results highlight the urgent need for sustained awareness, early detection and treatment, especially in underserved communities.
In July 2025, to mark World Hepatitis Day, we at HealthDrive Nigeria launched the Screen and Shield initiative, the largest youth-led hepatitis awareness and screening campaign ever conducted in Nigeria. The initiative was coordinated by me and two brilliant colleagues, Kehinde Adebiyi, a doctoral researcher and molecular biology expert at Indiana University, and Ademola Aiyenuro, a doctoral researcher in pathology and infectious diseases at the University of Cambridge. Together, with their expertise and my team’s on-the-ground networks, we mobilised an unprecedented national effort. Our key partners were the Nigerian Medical Students Association, Standing Committee on Public Health (NiMSA-SCOPH), directed by Gabriel Due, and The Campus Lifestyle, led by Victor Oluwasola.
The campaign reached at least 25 states across the country, spanning both urban centres and underserved communities. Over the course of the initiative, we engaged more than 500 youth volunteers, most of them medical students and early-career health professionals, who delivered awareness talks, mobilised communities, and conducted free screenings. In total, we provided free hepatitis B surface antigen screening to more than 5,000 people in just one month.
The impact went beyond the numbers as for many participants, it was their first-ever hepatitis test, and for countless others, their first time hearing about hepatitis prevention and vaccination. Communities were not only screened but also educated on prevention, treatment, and the importance of vaccination. For young volunteers, it was a good experience, an opportunity to develop leadership, project management, and advocacy skills while contributing directly to saving lives
