Lighting up the library for World Hepatitis Day 2025
After sunset on the evening of Monday 28 July, the exterior façade of the Library of Birmingham will be lit up purple in support of World Hepatitis Day 2025.
World Hepatitis Day is observed each year on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, which is an inflammation of the liver that causes severe liver disease and liver cancer.
The theme for 2025
The theme for World Hepatitis Day 2025 is Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down.
It calls for urgent action to dismantle the financial, social and systemic barriers, including the stigma, that stand in the way of hepatitis elimination and liver cancer prevention.
The theme emphasises the need to simplify, scale up, and integrate hepatitis services such as, vaccination, safe injection practices, harm reduction and especially testing and treatment, into national health systems.
The campaign is a reminder that we must act now to expand access, integrate care, and end hepatitis as a public health problem by 2030.
Facts about hepatitis
- Hepatitis is the world’s deadliest virus, after COVID-19.
- There are over 2 million new cases of hepatitis every year.
- More than 300 million people are living with hepatitis.
- Chronic hepatitis B and C silently cause liver damage and cancer despite being preventable and treatable.
- Hepatitis C is curable.
- Hepatitis is the leading cause of liver cancer.