The reigning Face of Independence Nigeria (FOIN) International, Peace Eteng has said that the killer liver infection called hepatitis B is growing slowly in Nigeria yet not much is being said about it and so she has begun to roll out plans to create awareness about the infection, even as she and her team of medical experts hope to offer free medical treatment to Nigerians already living with it.
The reigning Face of Independence Nigeria (FOIN) International, Peace Eteng says there have been repeated calls on Nigeria to tackle her over 1.5million annual alarming cases of the disease now slowly killing its people.
And if authorities and concern individuals like her in the entertainment industry do not wake up to sensitize their people on this pandemic, worst could happen.
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Eteng who is also currently a Genetics and Biotechnology undergraduate at the University of Calabar said "It's a rapid disease growing slowly and people are not aware.”
"Mostly transmitted through sexual intercourse, it affects the liver caused by viral infection."
She added that: "It is proven that people who carry hepatitis B are most likely to be infected with HIV and vice versa."
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Events to tackle the Hepatitis B menace in the country, by the Cross River born delectable beauty queen will be flagged off from June commencing in Calabar.
And when this event kick starts its routine activities would include check up and immunisation against Hepatitis B, where a team of medical experts shall attend to patients.
"They'll be consultation and if the person has reached the last stage, he or she will be quarantined because at that stage she could infect people by just her sweat," the beauty queen said.
It could be recalled that Queen Eteng was among the beauty queens who stormed Abuja to demand a violent free election in Nigeria's just concluded general election; a programme she carried out alongside her colleague, Queen Lillian Uche.
And in last December 25 through January 1 this year, Eteng led another initiative that saw over 200 street kids in Nigeria being fed, even as she maintains that her heart still goes out to them because of what she experienced with these kids.
The beauty queen further called on government of Cross River and other states across the nation she hopes to assist embrace her initiative to help humanity.
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