PH CONSULATE TEAMS UP WITH SF HEP B FREE FOR HEPATITIS B SCREENINGS
Deputy Consul General Raquel Solano welcomed Hep B Free San Francisco Bay Area (SF Hep B Free) for its second free Hepatitis B screening event at the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco on 9 June 2023. The tests would show whether or not an individual is Hepatitis B-positive, and whether or not one has the immune response to the disease.
SF Hep B Free Executive Director Richard So spearheaded the screenings at the Philippine Center’s Kalayaan Hall. He also gave a brief talk to the Consulate’s dual citizenship applicants, where he told the audience that Hepatitis B screenings should be free in any clinic or healthcare provider.
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, one in 12 AAPIs has chronic Hepatitis B, which causes liver cancer. While Asian Americans constitute only four percent of the population in the U.S., they comprise over half of the one to two million people in the country who are chronically infected with Hepatitis B. (San Francisco PCG photos)