In honor of May as Hepatitis Awareness Month and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Congressmen Mike Honda (CA) and Charles Dent (PA) hosted a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2007 to highlight major health issues in the Asian-American community that featured chronic hepatitis B and liver cancer. Dr. Timothy Block, HBF president, provided expert testimony about hepatitis B and advocated for increased federal funding of the NIH and CDC to advance their hepatitis B research and education programs.