Abuja, 8 February, 2023 - Four months before her wedding and on the eve of starting a new job, Dada Titilope went in for a routine medical check. It was then that the 36-year-old resident of Ile-Ife Osun State in Southwestern Nigeria discovered that she had hepatitis B.
“I was very scared,” Titilope recalls, describing the horrors she read online about the disease. “I thought it was a death sentence.”
She considered calling off the wedding. But her fiancé and family wouldn’t hear of it, encouraging her instead to focus on staying well.