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Article: NVHR Applauds New Bipartisan Legislation to Increase Awareness, Prevention of Viral Hepatitis.
- Article from:
- Hepatitis Weekly
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Bipartisan legislation introduced today in the US House of Representatives, "The Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control Act," will increase awareness and prevention of a disease that is already afflicting over 5 million Americans - more than half of whom do not know they are infected - and will help set the stage to avoid tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs in the coming decade, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) said (see also Liver Cancer).
The NVHR is a coalition of public, private, and voluntary organizations dedicated to reducing the incidence of infection, morbidity, and mortality from viral hepatitis in the United ...