News and Updates
- World Hepatitis Day (July 28th) – read the first ever Presidential Proclamation about viral hepatitis, and follow the White House event here.
- Killing Us Softly: What Americans Don’t Know and Why it Will Kill Them – an Huffington Post op-ed piece by Dr. Howard Koh and Representative Mike Honda.
- Two ‘B a Hero’ mobs on opposite sides of the country! California and Philadelphia.
- The Department of Health and Human Services released their new action plan: “Combating the Silent Epidemic of Viral Hepatitis: Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis” on May 12, 2011.
Dr. Baruch Blumberg, the scientist who discovered the hepatitis B virus and developed the diagnostic test and vaccine, died on April 5, 2010. Read his New York Times obituary here.
To join the National Task Force on Hepatitis B: Focus on Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, please send an email to the Task Force Secretary (merb00@stanford.edu) with your contact information. You will be enrolled in our listserv and included in our monthly conference calls.
