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🔎 Fund Overview

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end management investment company. The Trust investment objective is to provide total return through a combination of current income, current gains and long-term capital appreciation. The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities of companies engaged in the health sciences and related industries and equity derivatives with exposure to the health sciences industry. The Trust seeks to pursue this goal primarily by investing in a portfolio of equity securities and by employing a strategy of writing (selling) call and put options. The Trust invests in a portfolio of sectors, which include pharma, biotech and life sciences; healthcare equipment and services; semiconductors & semiconductor equipment; financial services, and others. BlackRock Advisors, LLC acts as the investment adviser of the Trust.