WHO's World Hepatitis Day 2022 virtual webinar featured updates from the recently launched WHO HCV guidelines on service delivery which recommends a radical simplification of the care pathway to overcome barriers in access to testing and treatment and shows how hepatitis services can be delivered at lower levels of health care, including primary care.
WHO is sharing a new Elimination report from 7 countries from the 6 WHO regions that have piloted the WHO criteria to validate progress towards hepatitis B and C elimination. The results are encouraging, and reinforce our goals -- that elimination efforts are feasible, acceptable and can be measured within different country contexts and disease burdens.
The panel discussion featured high profile speakers and community experiences to share solutions to bridge major gaps in the hepatitis response.
Objectives
The Global talk show provided a platform for global and regional leaders, national and policy maker, communities, and other stakeholders to recognize the urgent need for action and discuss opportunities for accelerating the hepatitis response to achieve elimination by 2030.
Agenda
Date: 28 July 2922 | Time: 13:00–14:45 CET
Interpretation in English, French and Spanish.
Moderators: Dr Funmi Lesi and Dr Niklas Luhmann
Webinar highlights
Opening Address by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
Welcome remarks and new Hepatitis strategy (2022-2030) designed to bring care closer to communities, by Dr Meg Doherty,Director, WHO Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes.
Simplified service delivery and new WHO guidelines to promote public health response by Dr Philippa Easterbrook, WHO Geneva.
Measuring progress towards elimination by 2030 is feasible (including report from 7 countries) by Dr Funmi Lesi, WHO Geneva.
The community is a major stakeholder in the hepatitis response by Mr Danjuma Adda, President, World Hepatitis Alliance.
Representatives from ministries of Health of India and Malaysia will present on, respectively, leveraging UHC and viral hepatitis elimination, and hepatitis, decentralization and selfcare.
Remarkable personal stories of people living with chronic viral hepatitis (or cured).
Bringing care closer in various WHO regions with regional advisers.
Facilitated panel discussion.