On Tuesday, January 29, HBI-DC, together with Many Languages One Voice and the Vietnamese American Community Service Center (VACSC), will host a free health screening that includes Glucose, Cholesterol and Hepatitis B for Washington DC Nail Salon workers at VACSC - 2437 15th Street NW Washington, D.C., 10am to 12pm.
| Nail salon workers are at a particularly high risk for transmitting or contracting blood-borne diseases due to the nature of their work. That makes finding out the status of Hepatitis B is critical. Hepatitis B is a serious infectious caused by the hepatitis b virus that infects the liver, and if left untreated, would eventually cause death. A study done by the American College of Gastroenterology October 2011 |