Summary Viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) is the leading cause of inflammation of liver tissue (hepatitis). The disease burden associated with hepatitis A and E occurs shortly after infection, and it is more severe among adults. With hepatitis A and E, the number of incident cases (new acute infections) is important […]
Summary More than 250 million people worldwide are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). In this Comment, members of the International Coalition to Eliminate HBV appraise the current policy environment and the need for appropriate cure research and preparedness to complement the WHO global elimination strategy, the HBV vaccine and the well- tolerated […]
Summary Collaborators Polaris Observatory Collaborators: Devin Razavi-Shearer, Ivane Gamkrelidze, Mindie H Nguyen, Ding-Shinn Chen, Pierre Van Damme, Zaigham Abbas, Maheeba Abdulla, Antoine Abou Rached, Danjuma Adda, Inka Aho, Ulus Akarca, Fuad Hasan, Faryal Al Lawati, Khalid Al Naamani, Hamad Ibrahim Al-Ashgar, Seyed M Alavian, Sameer Alawadhi, Agustin Albillos, Said A Al-Busafi, Soo Aleman, Faleh Z Alfaleh, Abdulrahman A Aljumah, Anil C Anand, Nguyen Thu Anh, Joop E Arends, Perttu Arkkila, Kostas Athanasakis, Abate Bane, Ziv Ben-Ari, Thomas Berg, Abdul R Bizri, Sarah Blach, Carlos E Brandão Mello, Samantha M […]
Summary Even though WHO has approved global goals for hepatitis elimination, most countries have yet to establish programs for hepatitis B and C, which account for 320 million infections and over a million deaths annually. One reason for this slow response is the paucity of robust, compelling analyses showing that national HBV/HCV programs could have […]
Summary In May 2016, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Health Sector Strategy (GHSS) on viral hepatitis 2016–2021. The GHSS calls for the elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030 (reducing new infections by 90% and mortality by 65%). This WHO Global hepatitis report describes, for the first time, the global and regional […]
Summary Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and 78 percent of world’s hepatocellular carcinoma and more than half of all fatal cirrhosis. In 2013 viral hepatitis, of which hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis […]
Summary This past May 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) Member States endorsed the first “Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis 2016-2021” at the 69th World Health Assembly. This strategy will contribute to the achievement of the Health Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Member States in the Americas have […]
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