Residents during celebrations to mark Hepatitis Day at Marigat Hospital, Baringo County. [File, Standard[
Hepatitis diseases pose a serious public health challenge in Kenya. Their global significance is recognised every year on 28 July as World Hepatitis Day. This year, attention was drawn to a worrying finding: 15 per cent of commercial sex workers in Nairobi’s Majengo slums who were tested for HIV/AIDS were also found to be infected with hepatitis B.