Okyeame Kwame To Host Free Hepatitis B Screening

This year’s edition of the annual free hepatitis B free screening campaign takes place in the third week of July.

Furthermore, the event is targeting over 5,000 people from all walks of life. The theme is: ‘Let’s Kick Hepatitis Out’.

Moreover, according to the rapper, the screening exercise aims at creating public awareness about hepatitis B.

Also, he explained that the response for hepatitis B screening over the years has been commendable. However, the rate of exposure is still high.

Okyeame Kwame about hepatitis B screening and education

Okyeame Kwame bemoaned the lack of participation from the youth. Therefore, he insisted that education needs to be intensified.

However, the artiste promises to help eliminate hepatitis B from the country by 2030.

This, he believes, would be achieved through music with partnership from the media and all relevant stakeholders.

He advised Ghanaians, especially the youth, to take hepatitis B free screening seriously.

Okyeame Kwame also appealed to all corporate bodies and other non-governmental organisations to help in the fight against hepatitis B by sponsoring the free screening exercise.

In 2009, Okyeame Kwame instituted the OK Foundation to create awareness on hepatitis B and also help reduce the prevalence rate of the disease in Ghana.

It is organised by the OK Foundation in partnership with the MDS-Lancet Laboratories.