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Regional Consultation on Viral Hepatitis
Control in the WHO African Region
Brazzaville, Congo
Following the launch of the
document “Prevention, Care and
Treatment of viral hepatitis in
the African Region: Framework
for action 2016–2020” in August,
Member States in the African Region
met in Brazzaville, Congo on 2325 November to discuss ways to
tackle viral hepatitis in one of the
hardest hit areas of the world. The
meeting was attended by WHO
European HIV-Hepatitis
Testing Week 2016
Now in its
fourth year
and the second
time hepatitis
testing has
been included,
European
Regional Director, Dr Matshidiso
Moeti, 18 national governments
and civil society including WHA. The
event showed that clear support for
actions towards elimination is now
emerging in the region, most notably
with the introduction of the birth
dose of hep B vaccine, which will
be critical for preventing mother to
child transmission.
HIV-Hepatitis Testing Week took
place from 18-25 November. The
testing week spanned the length
and breadth of the continent with
519 organisations participating from
49 countries. We raised awareness Missed the Twitter chat? Check out the
#time2test Storify here.
of the week and the importance
Global State of Harm
Reduction 2016
Did you know that people who inject
drugs (PWID) are the group with
the highest prevalence of hepatitis
C, an estimated 67%? Yet the drive
to scale-up needle and syringe
programmes (NSP) has stalled since
2014, with no new countries setting
up NSP.
Released this month, the Global
State of Harm Reduction 2016 report
illustrates just how much needs to
be done to support PWID in order
to meet the goal of elimination by
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of testing for viral hepatitis through
our social media channels as well as
participating in a Twitter chat along
with European Testing Week, European
Centre for Disease Prevention and
Control, European AIDS Treatment
Group and The Hepatitis B and C Public
Policy Association. The chat focused
on why people should test for HIV
and viral hepatitis and what prevents
people from getting tested.
2030. We need to
raise awareness and
take action on this
issue if we are to
achieve a world with
NOhep!
You can read the
report, and find
infographics to share
on social media here.
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