Empowering Immigrants in the Greater Boston Area to Connect to HBV Care

Specific Aims

1. Provide HBV education at community sites where immigrants at risk for HBV could be informed of the risks related to HBV, in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner.

   1. Chelsea, Charlestown, and Revere MGH Community Health Centers: posters, pamphlets, and telephone line to provide HBV education
   2. Senegalese Community Center: community meeting, posters, and pamphlets
   3. African Students' Association, Suffolk University: community meeting, posters, and pamphlets
   4. Revere Cambodian Community Centers: community meeting, posters, and pamphlets

2. Provide at-risk persons with the tools to develop an HBV diagnosis plan with his / her provider.

   1. Provide counseling on the significance of different testing results prior to testing
   2. Connect to testing, and appropriate post-test follow-up appointments

3. Provide an education hub for patients and providers to return to with questions regarding: test interpretation, available treatments for those who test positive, and screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in those who are infected.

   1. Provide copy of an easy to understand US HBV treatment algorithm in native languages
   2. Provide information related to genotype-specific risks for HCC (increased with GT C).