World Hepatitis Day 2025 – Date, Theme, Significance and History

Theme, Importance, and History of World Hepatitis Day

Hepatitis means liver inflammation or when your liver experiences inflammatory conditions. These conditions might result due to over consumption of alcohol, other health issues as well as due to side effects of certain medicines. Another common cause of hepatitis is viral infection. Despite being a critical disease, awareness about Hepatitis is quite low among people. So, to create awareness and make people know about the disease, World Hepatitis Day is celebrated. Let’s learn about World Hepatitis Day 2023 in detail below.

What is World Hepatitis Day?

World Hepatitis Day or WHD in short, is a day observed on the 28th of July each year to bring upon awareness across the globe with a particular theme so that more and more people know about the global situation of hepatitis. Hence the day, 28th July, is marked with a new theme every year to enhance awareness and bring change in the hepatitis scenario across the globe.

So, on this day each year people across the globe are invited to attend various campaigns, seminars, lectures etc., to raise awareness about the disease. In the global scenario, Hepatitis and related conditions are making a person die every 30 seconds. Thus, having better awareness about the disease and to act on it is the need of the hour. The different campaigns that are carried on during World Hepatitis Day 2023 are likely to educate people about the disease and its related aspects.

Theme of World Hepatitis Day 2025

This year for World Hepatitis Day 2025 theme is “Hepatitis Can’t Wait”. The theme implies that people living with this disease who are unaware about it must get tested immediately and must get life saving treatments immediately.

The theme aims to educate people to get tested, especially the expecting mothers and newborn babies for hepatitis screening and vaccination.

What is the Significance of World Hepatitis Day 2025?

There has been much work done towards eliminating Hepatitis from roots across the globe. With World Hepatitis Day, the event aims to raise awareness and encourage people about diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the disease. The event has set stepwise goals, such as;

• Raise awareness about the type of Hepatitis and their transmission process.
• Reinforce the prevention and control of hepatitis.
• Enhance vaccination drive against hepatitis B.
• Encourages global response against the disease.

Participation Across Globe

Over 100 nations across the globe are likely to celebrate WHD on 28th July 2025. The event collaborates with many other celebrations like the WHD Poster campaign, talk shows, various competitions, along with free screening, demonstrations etc. Further, vaccination drives are also organized as part of the celebration.

All these events are organized under the aegis of several associations both government as well as private groups.  The event encourages participation of more and more people globally.