300,000 Hongkongers to be offered free hepatitis B screenings in early 2026

About 300,000 Hong Kong residents will be offered free hepatitis B screenings early next year, as the city aims to meet a set of international goals to eliminate the disease as a public health threat by 2030. The screening scheme will run in parallel with authorities’ other measures to tackle hepatitis, as Hong Kong launched its viral hepatitis action plan for the next five years. “We can say that fighting hepatitis means tackling liver cancer at its root,” Dr Bonnie Wong Chun-kwan, a consultant...