opportunity to be amongst the young and in the old enjoying a great game of soccer it is great to see the community come out in in support of events such like such as this and memoriam of the two brothers who passed away the past two years it was great being here i'm enjoying being with the community and helping out the community in every way that i can it's great to see the movie come out and support a memorial event such as this and i had a great time in hope more people come out next year thank you ever three hepatitis b testing skin to be on june sixteenth two thousand and twelve from eleven o'clock until three pm in the afternoon hello my name is kim when i am the program manager for th hepatitis b coalition of washington we are a program within reach and today i'd like to share with you some of the hepatitis b war that we have been pursuing with multimedia resources training institute and international community health services we've been doing this work with the east african community for about two and a half years doing providing hepatitis b health education and today we are wanting to present a be want to one training about what the diseases and encourage you to get involved in this work so this will this is a basic training on what the disease is how to prevent with the transmission and how to take care of yourself and your family so hepatitis b is a disease that infects the liver the liver is a very important organ in your body it is on the right side of your body behind your rib cage it pro tax it is protected by the rich because it's a very important organ it cleans the waste and blood from your body so make sure that you take very good care of your liver hepatitis the word itself actually means inflammation of the liver there's hepatitis a b and c and they all affect the liver but how you get each of the virus is a little different today we are going to concentrate on hepatitis b and we will tell you why it's such an important issue hepatitis b is a virus that spreads primarily from the mother who has the virus to her unborn baby during the childbirth process hepatitis b is also spread through sharing of infected needles or other household items that have the virus living on it that has not been cleaned or disinfected if you practice any activities in your daily life that  can courage that can share blood we encourage you to think about those activities and how you can avoid transmitting the virus to one other person so for example if you use acupuncture needles we encourage that you have your own needles and do not share needles it's important to know that hepatitis b is not spread through from casual contact so you can't hug and kiss and hold hands with someone be around someone who has hepatitis b there are two types of hepatitis b there is the acute and there is chronic and acute means that you have have you you have hepatitis b for less than six months chronic mean the tightest be for longer than six months and it means you have the virus for life and that's what we are concerned we're trying to prevent chronic hepatitis b we care about hepatitis b because if it's left undetected and untreated it can lead to liver cancer about twenty five percent of the cases to lead  liver cancer what we want to do though is prevent that chronic hepatitis b is a silent killer meaning that oftentimes symptoms do not appear and so you can feel very well and you can feel healthy but still have the virus living inside you and unintentionally be passing it on to those around you it's important to note that there is no cure for hepatitis b there are vaccines to prevent and effective treatments but there is no cure for the virus if people do show symptoms some of their symptoms are very much like getting sick or having the flu but other symptoms include yellowing of the skin called john dis and pain on the right side because that's where your liver is and because your liver is not functioning because the virus is infecting it your body is not able to to get rid of the waste so you can have bad breath you can have nadia and vomit and brown urine when we look at the world have to be is a very serious issue  the countries in the darkest color means that there is between eight to ten percent prevalence of hepatitis b what we are concerned about is even though in the u s it doesn't look like hepatitis b is a serious issue because there are a lot of people moving into the u s and living here we are concerned about those who are coming from the countries that are in the darkest color where they may have contracted the virus and coming to the u s and not know that they have the virus so we want to raise awareness with those communities in washington state there is about twenty eight close to thirty thousand now people washingtonians who have chronic hepatitis b it's very preventable so there is no need for thirty thousand washingtonians to have chronic hepatitis b and as you can imagine most of the cases are in king county seattle king county worldwide to hepatitis b is one of the top ten causes of death and is it similar to h in a lot of ways but one way that it's different is that the chronic hepatitis b virus is one hundred times more powerful than the hiv virus here in the u s causes about between four thousand to fifty five hundred deaths a year and that's what we want to prevent the best way to protect yourself is to know about your status  is to get tested and to get vaccinated to protect yourself and your family the only way to get tested is through a blood draw so you would have to go to a doctor or a clinic and get your blood drawn specifically for hepatitis b it's important to know that not every there is not a tests a blood test that tests for every disease or every health issue and it's also important to know that hepatitis b is not regularly tested at your annual exam so when you go to your annual exam to see your doctor make sure you talk to him or her about whether or not you've been tested and protected against hepatitis b some people will show that they don't have the virus but they don't have protection so protection means getting vaccinated and it's a three shot series so you'll get the vaccine today in one month you will return for the second vaccine and in six months you will return for the third vaccine it's a very effective vaccine it has been around for for decades and has been proven very safe and make sure that you finish are three shots to be protected again other ways to protect and prevent from getting hepatitis b is getting vaccination having your child vaccinated when your baby is born practicing protected sex not sharing needles or infected household items but more importantly to know your status and again that means to go get tested for talk to your doctor or go to a clinic for those people who are tested positive or who have chronic hepatitis b it's ok to you can treat and you can manage the disease it's like diabetes as as long as you know you have it you can manage and treat it talk to your doctor about the treatment plan he may have you do some more blood tests he may have you do some ultrasounds he may have you take some pills or give you injection shots it all depends on each individual person so if you are diagnosed with hepatitis b it does not mean you will immediately get on treatment every person is different and make sure you talk to your family and friends and make sure that they are taken care of as well again if you first see your doctor and then your doctor may be able to refer you to a specialist  needed so we just want to end today with sharing some resources for more information about hepatitis b where you can get tested more detailed information please feel free to visit these sites and if you have any questions there is contact information at all of these links to provide additional information thank you for watching hi my name is sarah ricci and i'm a teaching artist at m r t i i'm also a filmmaker and i teach young people around seattle different digital media skills from photography and photoshop  to digital storytelling and video production classes here and m m r to teach the premier editing class where you take students through the basics of editing through importing footage to adding transition color correcting green screen titles music and then take them to the burning part process and getting their project up on line or burn to a d v d in the future i'm going to work with young people at m be heard and make media so i look forward to meeting you at m m r t i hope to see a lot of young people coming down bringing their ideas and voices and making programmes and making media with us learn about the culture yes so this is a project for one of our classes this year than pick a different culture than our own in the seattle area and then to common just learn as much as we can about people that are different than us so we