Cases of Hepatitis B have increased in Adjumani district with new infections reported every day.
\nAccording to a data from the District Health Office, the prevalence rate of Hepatitis B virus in the district stands at 11%.
\nSpeaking during emergency meeting on Hepatitis B virus on Monday, Dr Ronald Ogwal, who represented the District Health Officer, says the district doesn\u2019t have a budget for management of Hepatitis B virus that has continued to kill people.<\/p>\n
Hepatitis B is a viral disease which affects the liver and mode of transmission is like that of HIV\/AIDS. He adds that to make matters worse the residents in the area do not have correct information concerning the viral disease.<\/p>\n
Mr Richard Atepo, a health educator at Adjumani hospital said in the year 2011-2014, at least 1,472 people were tested for Hepatitis B virus in the hospital out of which 309 tested positive.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 463 people tested from private clinics and 78 of them were found to be carrying the virus last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cases of Hepatitis B have increased in Adjumani district with new infections reported every day. According to a data from the District Health Office, the prevalence rate of Hepatitis B virus in the district stands at 11%. Speaking during emergency meeting on Hepatitis B virus on Monday, Dr Ronald Ogwal, who represented the District Health Officer, says the district doesn\u2019t have a budget for management of Hepatitis B virus that has continued to kill people. Hepatitis B is a viral disease which affects the liver and mode of transmission is like that of HIV\/AIDS. He adds that to make matters worse the residents in the area do not have correct information concerning the viral disease. Mr Richard Atepo, a health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":18383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}