Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. President Trump recently said he thought children should not get it until age 12.
Effective drugs that have made the disease curable have yet to reach most of the region.
Sulemana Musah, a schoolteacher in Accra, Ghana, started feeling sick in 2011, while he was a student, but he didnβt receive a hepatitis C diagnosis until 2017.