author(s)
Rashid Ahmad and Zakirullah

abstract
Pakistan carries one of the world’s highest burdens of chronic hepatitis andmortality due to liver failure and hepatocellular carcinomas. However, national-level estimates ofthe prevalence of and risk factors for hepatitis B and hepatitis C are currently not available.The current investigation determines the frequency of HBV and HCV in the patients of Matta, Swat. Four hundred (400) patients were diagnosed with hepatitis within a time period of eight months from (1st September 2017 to 30th April 2018). All the blood samples were examined by Immune-Chromatographic Kit (ICT). Out of 400 patients, a total of 32 (8.4%) patients were reported positive for HBV and HCV. Among these patients, 22(68.75%) and 10(31.35%) were positive for HBV and HCV respectively. Conclusively, The Hepatitis B prevalence was higher as compared to Hepatitis C. In addition, among males, a high prevalence was recorded than females. In this study, it was reported that that primary high prevalence of HBV and HCV is in majority cases due to the lack of public health awareness on the transmission of disease.