Across a continent where 64 million people carry chronic hepatitis B and fewer than one in a hundred receive treatment, Africa CDC has released a practical operational toolkit designed not for specialists but for nurses in district clinics far from any hospital. The tools to prevent and cure this disease have existed for decades — the vaccine costs cents, the medicines are off patent — and so the deaths that continue to accumulate are not the product of ignorance but of deferred choice. This toolkit arrives as a test of Africa's broader commitment to health sovereignty: the belief that the con
Africa's Hepatitis Crisis Tests Health Sovereignty Agenda
272,000 hepatitis B deaths in Africa in 2022; millions living with chronic infection with minimal access to screening or treatment.