{"id":102,"date":"2019-05-29T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2019-05-29T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:45:36","slug":"may-is-hepatitis-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/may-is-hepatitis-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"May is Hepatitis Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-107 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HAM_Homepage-Banner-1024x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"857\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HAM_Homepage-Banner-1024x307.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HAM_Homepage-Banner-300x90.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HAM_Homepage-Banner-768x230.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HAM_Homepage-Banner.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and May 19th\u00a0marks the 8th annual Hepatitis Testing Day in the U.S.! Organizations around the U.S. are out and about spreading awareness about hepatitis B and hosting many hepatitis education and testing events. We are excited to share resources of opportunities for everyone to get involved in their community this month and throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/assets\/98deaee93d\/Hepatitis-Awareness-Month-Activities-5.20.19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activity guide<\/a> to find a local organization and event near you,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/hepawarenessabcs.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC&#8217;s new\u00a0Hepatitis Awareness Month and Testing Day homepage<\/a>, and a short CDC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tZZiqe-Jc6o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0presentation that\u00a0highlights the resources available\u00a0for Hepatitis Awareness Month.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <strong>join\u00a0Join\u00a0Hepatitis B Foundation,\u00a0NASTAD\u00a0and\u00a0CDC\u2019s\u00a0Division of Viral Hepatitis\u00a0for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hepb.org\/blog\/get-ready-hepatitis-awareness-month-twitter-chat\/#more-6937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter HepChat<\/a> at 2 p.m. (ET) Thursday, June 13th<\/strong>. The chat will highlight Hepatitis Awareness Month outreach events and allow partner organizations to share their successes, challenges and lessons learned from their efforts. Keep us posted with your events throughout the month with the hashtag <strong>#Hepaware19<\/strong> and remember to join the Twitter Chat conversation with the hashtag\u00a0<strong>#HepChat19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZZiqe-Jc6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and May 19th\u00a0marks the 8th annual Hepatitis Testing Day in the U.S.! Organizations around the U.S. are out and about spreading awareness about hepatitis B and hosting many hepatitis education and testing events. We are excited to share resources of opportunities for everyone to get involved in their community this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/may-is-hepatitis-awareness-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May is Hepatitis Awareness Month<\/span> &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hepbunited.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}