Hepatitis friend or foe

1
Hepatitis friend or foe?

• Building awareness helps identify and understand
  the difference between friend and foe

2
Exposure in the office environment

• Sharing towels
• Accidental injuries
• Eating unhygienic food stuff from the canteen
  (exposes you and the children to Hepatitis A E)
• Sharing combs hair brushes
• Uncovered/untreated wounds

3
Risk of exposure at home

• Shared personal care items like
• Razors
• Toothbrushes
• Cuticle scissors
• Comb
• Hairbrush
• Nail cutters
• Towels

4
Exposure outside

• Apart from bad practices like injecting yourself
  with drugs and from extra-marital sex, one should
  be careful
• While visiting badly managed health facilities
• Right to usage of clean syringes
• Right to receiving screened blood or organ
• Right to clean and sterile instruments used by
  doctors
• While getting your hair cut at a barber shop or
  saloon that are messy, dirty and/or sloppy in
  hygienic considerations
• Always take your own scissor and comb
• Make sure the barber properly disinfects these
  tools
• Make sure his/her hands are clean
• Ensure that razors, blades and other sharp tools
  are autoclaved

5

• Thank you