What is Team HBV?

Team HBV is the outreach arm of the Jade Ribbon Campaign. Our mission is to increase awareness of the dangers of Hepatitis B and liver cancer. We are an international community comprised of collegiate chapters, high school chapters and local volunteers based out of the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University. More broadly, it includes all of those groups and individuals who toil endlessly under the noble cause of the JRC: to increase awareness and provide ethnic-sensitive health information to the API community and health professionals in an effort to reduce this major health disparity and improve API health. In essence, Team HBV is the human network of those on the frontlines working to educate their communities about hepatitis B and liver cancer. Team HBV's goal is centered on one focus: education. To that end, Team HBV exists to raise awareness of and educate people about the dangers and common misconceptions of hepatitis B, which causes liver cancer. Often this plays itself out by targeting the surrounding community where Team HBV implements outreach events that promote vaccination against and testing for hepatitis B. Our hope is that providing education gives people the tools necessary to eliminate the disparity between what they think they know about HBV and the actual truth. Just follow the links to find out more about the Collegiate Chapters, the High School chapters, or how to help out in your community. For even more information about Team HBV, please email: info@teamhbv.org.