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- 400 million people worldwide are chronically infected with hepatitis B — 280 million of those are Asians/Pacific Islanders (APIs) and 130 million are Chinese
- It is estimated that 1.25 million people have chronic hepatitis B in the United States, and Asian Americans account for more than half of the cases
- As many as 1 out of 10 Asian Americans has chronic hepatitis B
- 15 to 25 percent of people with chronic hepatitis B will eventually die from liver disease without treatment
- Worldwide, chronic hepatitis B is the leading cause of liver cancer and is the sixth leading cause of liver transplantation
- Hepatitis B is 50 to 100 times more contagious than HIV (the virus that causes AIDS)
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