The global campaign to eliminate HBV and HCV infection: International Viral Hepatitis Elimination Meeting and core indicators for development towards the 2030 elimination goals

Journal of Virus Eradication

Debora Bade¹  Manal El-Sayed²  Olafsson Sigurour³  Amiran Gamkrelidze⁴  Vana Sypsa⁵  Mark van der Valk⁶  Stephanie Popping⁶  Timothy Morgan⁷  Constance Mukabatsinda⁸  Jordan Feld⁹  Michael Ninburg^1,10  Sylvie Deuffic-Burban^1,11  John Ward^1,12  Charles Boucher^1,13  Margaret Hellard^1,14 

[1] Corresponding author: Stephanie Popping, Viroscience department, Erasmus MC, Postbus 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;Virology Education, Utrecht, the Netherlands;Amsterdam UMC location Meibergdreef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece;Department of Pediatrics, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland;Gastroenterology Section, VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA, USA;Inserm, Université Paris Diderot, UFR de Médicine-site Bichart, Paris, France;Kigali University, Kigali, Rwanda;National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia;Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Virology Education, Utrecht, the Netherlands;World Hepatitis Alliance, London, UK;

关键词: hepatitis C virus;    elimination;    World Health Organization;    hepatitis B virus;    viral hepatitis;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) affect more than 320 million people worldwide, which is more than HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria combined. Elimination of HBV and HCV will, therefore, produce substantial public health and economic benefits and, most importantly, the prevention of 1.2 million deaths per year. In 2016, member states of the World Health Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that viral hepatitis should be eliminated by 2030. Currently, few countries have elimination programmes in place and even though the tools to achieve elimination are available, the right resources, commitments and allocations are lacking. During the fifth International Viral Hepatitis Elimination Meeting (IVHEM), 7–8 December 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, an expert panel of clinicians, virologists and public health specialists discussed the current status of viral hepatitis elimination programmes across multiple countries, challenges in achieving elimination and the core indicators for monitoring progress, approaches that have failed and successful elimination plans.

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