The National Hispanic Hepatitis Awareness Day (NHHAD) is a collective movement aimed at educating and mobilizing Hispanic/Latino communities throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island to increase their awareness and of knowledge viral hepatitis and its high prevalence in our communities. It is a national community mobilization and social messaging campaign that unites the Hispanic/Latino community in efforts to provide education, raise viral hepatitis awareness, promote hepatitis screening, prevention, treatment and care, and ensure that our communities are aware that there is a cure.

Every May 15th, NHHAD mobilizes community based organizations, leaders of the Latino community and allies, health departments, and elected officials to spread awareness within the Hispanic/Latino community about Viral Hepatitis, and bring about improvements in hepatitis related health disparities and health practices by building capacity, developing and disseminated resources, utilizing media channels, and casting a spotlight on Latino faces behind the epidemic.