3. A WHO HBV Vaccination & HCV Diagnostic Message/Industry on TV 4. WHO Look Back HBV & HCV Death Certificate Usage Counts Viral Hepatitis decimating the undiagnosed over 25 years 5. Targeted Use of the HBV Vaccine at all from Pandemic Areas Mirroring our mainly undiagnosed 390,000 carriers, especially throughout education and blood worker venues and 4%+ high prevalence communities 6. Occupational Hepatitis Education – Olympic Blood Hygiene Precaution Warns our one million blood workers that 1 in 12 people bleed hepatitis now. The 6 Hepatitis Asks are not a health campaign, they are basic human rights. A right to transparency about Hospital & Overseas Pandemics, a right to risk education about threats greater than HIV, a right to diagnostic inventions that save lives and a right to know if my job or country of birth carries a fatal threat. Finally, it is obvious that we should know the scale of infections and death, our health service has a moral duty and is paid to publicise not hide these matters of life and death. The 6 Hepatitis Asks have saved lives for 10-20 years overseas and form the backbone of global medical response. Each has been under or simply never used by the NHS to date. Simple screening of the known at risk, is still the task in hand. Deploying the tried and proven Asks to get 50% plus diagnosis levels can happen quickly and very cost effectively to save billions in liver morbidity over the coming decades. However, we are 20 years late in making a targeted testing effort, and our health professionals are still without the standard risk information or the testing posters, maps and targets to diagnose themselves or their patients. The 6 Hepatitis Asks are proven to step change our woeful performance in seeing, diagnosing and warning our population. After 20 years of spin underestimating viral hepatitis, we now require the truth of 700,000 undiagnosed infections and their possible decimation by liver cancer and disease to be admitted and treated in an honest way. Our doctors should have asked their patients and migrants to safety check their HBV (birth) and HCV (surgery/dialysis) risks in the early Nineties. It needs to be done now more than ever. 5. Targeted Testing “Targeted Hepatitis Safety Testing is Crucial and Universal Vaccination is Crucial. We can spend pennies on diagnosis and prevention or pounds on illness.”
Table 2 9.Equality The Undiagnosed cannot lobby for their lives; the silently infected newborns cannot lobby for their lives. Migrants and health workers cannot combat a disease they are not warned about or safety tested for. The Strategy has always been to LOOK for them with screening and warn them of the dangers of infection plus innocent alcohol and medicine use. In 2009 we spent £2 billion on 700 Swine Flu deaths and just £2 million on the GET TREATED HCV (Drug Injectors campaign) for our annually rising 3,000 Viral Hepatitis deaths. Think of the number of messages aimed at the smoking carcinogen and ask yourself why you have never even once publicly seen television adverts detailing with how 1 in 4 humans have caught the equally deadly viral hepatitis carcinogens. How 1 in 65 UK citizens are infected? How being born and having an inoculation or surgery are the key risks we are simply not screening. “THE UK FUNDS GLOBAL HBV VACCINATION WHILST LEAVING MILLIONS AT RISK LOCALLY” Throughout the UK some 10 million migrants have out run their homelands hepatitis b immunisation programmes. With even war zones and failed states now rolling pentavalent 5 in 1 programmes with help from the British