Unless there is a massive scale-up in awareness, screening, diagnosis and linkage to care, more people will become infected and lives will continue to be lost.

Major causes of Liver diseases are preventable and curable when detected early. Most of the youths and adults living within sub-Saharan Africa engage in lifestyles that are harmful to the liver. These habits include ingestion of alcohol, smoking of cigarette and other recreational drugs. They contract hepatitis, chronic liver disease and liver cancers; seek medical care late and prematurely die from their disease.

Apart from families losing their loved ones and breadwinners to terminal liver disease, modifiable lifestyles such as smoking and heavy alcohol drinking among the youths have been the most problematic.   All these facts have propelled the cause of this initiative. If these people are sufficiently educated or informed about the detrimental consequences of their habits, they would not continue with what they are doing today.