The Egyptian Liver Foundation and the Adult Education Authority are teaming up for a new mission: empower citizens with hepatitis viruses. Gamal Shiha, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Liver Foundation and Chairman of the African Society for the Care of Liver Patients, recently met with a delegation from the General Authority for Adult Education, headed by Chairman of the Board Essam Qamar, to discuss their target. The two sides discussed ways to scientifically, healthily and economically empower citizens diagnosed with hepatitis viruses and those who are recovering from them, and to determine the form of cooperation between the Egyptian Liver Foundation and the Adult Education Authority in order to implement a new initiative titled “Productive Villages Free of Illiteracy and Hepatitis Viruses”. Qamar has put together an executive plan in cooperation with the Egyptian Liver Foundation to declare 50 villages free of illiteracy and from hepatitis viruses. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), viral hepatitis is one of Egypt’s most significant public health challenges, with an estimated 8–10 million persons, or 10% of the population, living with the disease and millions more at risk…
Egyptian Liver Foundation and Adult Education Authority Aim to Eradicate Illiteracy of Patients with Hepatitis
August 24, 2017
