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• Advocates Demand Migrants’ Inclusion in EU and UK COVID-19 Vaccine Plans

  

  Global advocates sent open letters to the UK and EU heads of state, and European Commission leadership urging for immediate provision of COVID-19 vaccines to all people who are migrants, refugees, displaced or non-national people residing in the UK and EU. More

  6 May 2021

• EASL Policy Statement: Drug Use and the Global Hepatitis C Elimination Goal

  

  August 2020—The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) made a bold policy statement, based on a science-based policy brief, to lift treatment barriers and decriminalize drug use as part of elimination strategies.
  EASL recommends “that all barriers to the uptake of the continuum (...) More

  13 February 2021

• Harnessing the COVID-19 Response Towards Hepatitis C Elimination

  

  On February 3, 2021, Treatment Action Group, Médecins du Monde, hepCoalition, and the UNITE network convened a virtual policy dialogue among parliamentarians, global civil society organizations, and community leaders to share how COVID-19 has impacted global hepatitis C virus elimination efforts. The virtual policy dialogue offered an opportunity to reflect on the latest scientific progress and policy innovations from the International AIDS Society COVID-19 Prevention Conference. More

  1 February 2021

• African Declaration to Eliminate Hepatitis C and Improve the Health of People Who Use Drugs Cape Town, South Africa, 20 February 2020

  

  We, the community of people working to eliminate hepatitis C in the African region express alarm regarding the increasing impact of drug use, hepatitis C, and other viral co-infections (including HIV and hepatitis B) on the health and well-being of people who use drugs and the limited access to evidence-based services effective for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C infection and for improving the health of people who use drugs. More

  21 February 2020

• #FreeChangsha3: Wrongfully Detained HIV/Viral Hepatitis Activists

  

  Three Chinese lawyers and advocates, Cheng Yuan, Wu Gejianxiong, and Liu Yongze, who work on employment discrimination and disability justice for people living with HIV and viral hepatitis, have been wrongfully detained in Hunan, China since 22 July 2019. More

  19 August 2019