Abstract: There is a lack of awareness about hepatitis C due to poverty, involvement of quacks and less penetrationof mass media. To develop the awareness of hepatitis C among primary grade students. A total of 150students of primary grade among 300, of Government sector Middle School Lahore were selected throughmultistage cluster sampling. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in the time period of 6 months fromApril 2014 to Sep 2014. Data analysis was done with SPSS 20. After describing the important variables,average percentages were used to find out the difference between pre and post awareness performances andt score and p value was calculated. All the students (150) were boys, 98% belonged to a lower middle classfamily with the age of 9-12 years. During pre-testing evaluation, students were never given the knowledgeabout hepatitis C, its source of transmission (contaminated syringes) and its secondary prevention. Only3% knew that it can be prevented. About 61% thought that it is a disease of adults. Only 21.1% studentsthought it can be cured. In post awareness assessment after 3 sessions of interactive learning, 92% studentsunderstood the prevention of hepatitis C disease, its transmission (syringes 88.7%, blood transfusion 91%),signs (effects on liver 92.9%), symptoms (88%), prevention in high prevalent areas (sterilized syringes andscreened blood transfusion 86.5%) and management (88.7%). This study showed that it may be an importantschool health based intervention to educate students about the transmission, prevention and management ofhepatitis C, which may help in declining the disease burden. Hepatitis C, Unsterilized syringes, Hepatitis CAwareness, Prevention of Hepatitis C.
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