Recent publications
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Updated Hepatitis C Treatment Guidelines
Geneva - July 2018
The World Health Organization released the updated Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Persons Diagnosed with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection. They follow and update the screening and care section of the WHO Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of (...) More -
Hepatitis C among People who use drugs 61th CND Side Event (March 2018)
On March 16th, during the 61th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) held in Vienna (Austria), a side event untitled “Hepatits C among people who use drugs – the global state and recommendations” was sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), Norway government, the International (...) More
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Updated Training Manual for Treatment Advocates: Hepatitis C Virus & Coinfection with HIV
This Training Manual was designed and updated in February 2018 by Treatment Action Group (TAG), an independent, activist and community-based research and policy think tank fighting for better treatment, prevention, a vaccine, and a cure for HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C virus.
The purpose (...) More -
Tackling hepatitis C – Pakistan’s road to success
The annual World Hepatitis Summit in São Paulo, Brazil took place in November 2017 to take stock of the World Health Organization’s global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis 2016–2020. The international community called for immediate, innovative, and coherent policy interventions, backed by evidence-based research. In 2015, the viral hepatitis pandemic (largely hepatitis B and C) caused an estimated 1.4 million deaths, however, the attention and response by donors and policy-makers has been woefully inadequate. An Editorial in The Lancet draws attention to this inaction, and new data indicate that action has been fragmented and insufficient. Only 82 countries, including Pakistan, have adopted strategies to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030. More
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WORLD HEPATITIS SUMMIT: NO ELIMINATION WITHOUT DECRIMINALIZATION! 18 civil society organisations call world leaders to promote harm reduction and decriminalise drug use
São Paulo, Brazil – November 2nd 2017.
At the occasion of the World Hepatitis Summit, a large coalition of patients, clinicians, social workers, representatives of the drug using community, researchers, and public health experts express their whole-hearted support to the commitment of the World (...) More