Jon Secada joins Merck & American Liver Foundation’s ‘Tune In to Hep C’ Public awareness campaign.

Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) announced that three-time GRAMMY award-winning Cuban-American recording artist and songwriter Jon Secada is adding his voice to the Tune In to Hep C public health campaign to help raise awareness of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Secada revealed for the first time today that his father recently passed away from complications associated with chronic HCV infection, a disease that disproportionately affects the Hispanic community. He hopes that sharing his family’s personal experience through this bilingual awareness campaign will activate Hispanic Americans with chronic HCV to take action and speak to their doctors about their options.

Secada joins Merck, the American Liver Foundation (ALF) and fellow GRAMMY winners Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band and Natalie Cole on the Tune In to Hep C initiative, which Merck and ALF launched last year.