HEPATITIS B IS KILLING MORE NIGERIANS THAN HIV. AND MOST DON’T EVEN KNOW THEY HAVE IT. 🏥
Nigeria has one of the highest Hepatitis B burdens in the world. Over 20 million Nigerians are currently living with chronic Hepatitis B infection. That’s nearly 1 in 10 people. Meanwhile, everyone is running from HIV and Hepatitis B is quietly doing more damage.
HIV kills roughly 1.5 million people globally per year. Hepatitis B kills close to 2 million. It is deadlier. It is more contagious. And it spreads faster.
Hepatitis B is transmitted through blood, unprotected sex, sharing sharp objects like razors, clippers, needles and from mother to child during childbirth. You don’t need to be “reckless” to get it. The barber’s blade. The hospital that cuts corners. The mother who didn’t know she was positive. That’s how entire families carry it without knowing.
And that’s the most dangerous part…NO SYMPTOMS.
Most people with Hepatitis B have zero symptoms for years. Sometimes decades. By the time the body starts showing signs like fatigue, jaundice and abdominal pain . The liver may already be severely damaged. Cirrhosis. Liver cancer. Liver failure. You can be walking around looking healthy, infecting people and dying slowly all at the same time.
But here is where it differs from HIV. THERE IS A VACCINE.
A highly effective, widely available vaccine exists. Three doses and you are protected for life. If you were born before routine vaccination became standard in Nigeria, there’s a real chance you were never covered. There is also antiviral treatment for those already infected. It doesn’t cure it, but it suppresses the virus, protects the liver and reduces transmission dramatically.
So here is what you need to do:
GET TESTED. A simple blood test, the HBsAg test tells you your status. It costs very little. Some hospitals and health campaigns offer it free. You cannot treat what you don’t know you have.
If you test NEGATIVE, get vaccinated immediately. Don’t delay it.
If you test POSITIVE,
see a doctor. You will need liver function tests, viral load monitoring and possibly antiviral therapy. Do not manage this alone.
Tell your family. Hepatitis B is a family disease. If you test positive, your spouse, children and close contacts need to be tested and vaccinated too.
People will openly discuss malaria drugs on this app. But Hepatitis B? Silence. Stigma. Avoidance. That silence is why people are dying preventable deaths every single day in this country.
You owe it to yourself and the people around you to know your status.
Go get tested. Get vaccinated. See a medical practitioner.
Your liver is the only one you have. PROTECT it.👏
@gideonmutu25902@amerix So you're saying your sister loves the rude boy behaviour. Maybe your daughter too in the future might date the rude boy and you think you would be fine with it.
When i see tweets like this, i always laugh because a whole lot of you are very ignorant about how the system works.
Let me school you on the reality of that "14-Day of no men" fantasy.
You think if men disappeared for two weeks, you’d finally 'breathe'?Lol. You are imagining a world where everything still works, lights, water, internet, just without the men. But you're forgetting that these things are controlled, managed, and built by mostly men.
Now allow me school you on what would happen if men disappeared for 2 weeks.
Day 1-3: The Supply Chain Snaps
Do you know that over 90% of truck drivers and logistics crews are men?
Cities only hold about 3 days' worth of fresh food.
The moment the 18-wheelers stop moving, panic buying starts and before 3 days, existing stocks are cleared and by Day 3, you aren't 'walking peacefully at 3 AM' because you'll be too busy guarding your pantry because there is no food coming to restock the store.
Day 4-7: The "Scent" of Sisterhood
Do you know who manages the sewage treatment plants and garbage dumps?
Without active crews to clear blockages and manage waste pressure, the systems back up.
Trash piles up on the streets. Toilets stop flushing. The 'fresh air' you wanted to breathe now smells like shit and rotting garbage. Hygiene diseases begin to spread.
Day 8-10: The Lights (and The Internet) Die
The Power Grid does not work on girl power. it requires constant, active load balancing by engineers in control rooms.
When those men vanish, safety systems trip. Blackout.
No AC. No refrigeration for your spoiling food. No internet to tweet about your freedom.
Day 14: The "Protection" You Forgot
You asked, 'Protect us from who?'
Protect you from Entropy.
If a fire starts in your apartment complex, who is manning the heavy rig to put it out?
The truth is the world will go into chaos without the other gender and
Civilization is a Maintenance Project.
You are safe to fantasize about a soft life only because invisible men are doing the dirty, dangerous, and exhausting work to keep the lights on.
A world without men is a world not worth living
@lobisterGrandma For peter Dinkledge's wife mostly like possesses TT trait both dominant and recessive traits are tall. Then Peter Dinkledge possesses tt both traits are dwarfism when crossed the results are TT x tt
Result Tt, Tt,Tt, Tt all children would would be tall but with a recessive trait
@lobisterGrandma The Nkubi's wife most likely possesses Tt T represents Tall while t represents drawfism. The T is a dominant gene in the wife while t is recessive gene. Then for Nkubi possesses tt both dominant and recessive traits are dwarfism. Now when you cross the traits Tt x tt you get