**3. Materials and methods**

A cross sectional study was conducted including 560 people from rural areas. A nonprobability technique of sampling was used (using convenient sampling). The duration of study was from May 2018 to September 2018**.**

Inclusion criteria: Male and female having an age above 16 years. Who attends hepatitis screening and awareness camps?

Exclusion criteria: people below 16 years of age**.**

#### *Awareness and Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C in Rural Areas of Lahore, Pakistan DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109192*

Methodology: First of all, we engaged different doctors who were gastroenterologist in their profession. They facilitated our project. Then, with the assistance of Hilton Pharmaceuticals, we arranged hepatitis screening and awareness camps in different communities of rural areas of Lahore like Taj bhag, Nawab pura, Hameed Pura, SA Rehman darogah wala, and Sadar (Naseer Hospital). In these camps, we screened approximately 600 people from which 560 people respond to our questionnaire. In every camp, we arranged three counters, at first counter, screening of hepatitis B and C was done, at second counter, questionnaire evaluating disease and knowledge was filled and at the third counter results of Screening were intimated to community population. After that, people with negative screening results were referred to our group members for awareness regarding prevention of hepatitis, and people with positive screening results were referred to doctor Jameel who is the owner of Al Maki Al Madni Trust. In this Trust, they were provided with hepatitis treatment at discount or free of charge to the needy patients.
