August
Stories of the year
August
August focused on building on the momentum from WHD , with national governments announcing commitment to elimination . Africa launched their “ Prevention , Care and Treatment of viral hepatitis in the African Region : Framework for action 2016 – 2020 ”, building on the Global Strategy and looking at ways to effectively tackle this disease . Fully embracing elimination , the Honourable Prime Minister of Bangladesh , Sheikh Hasina MP , issued a special WHD message acknowledging the goal of the elimination of hepatitis B and C and expressed the government ’ s commitment to reaching this target . In Georgia the government approved the 2016-2020 National Strategy on Elimination of Hepatitis C and declared that hepatitis C will be virtually eliminated by 2020 in Georgia . Find out more about these commitments here .
8 hepVoice November / December 2016