As the hepatitis B virus is widely spread and responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality, WHO recommends vaccination from infancy to reduce acute infection and chronic carriers. However, current subunit vaccines are not 100% efficacious and leave 5–10% of recipients unprotected.
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We are the only grant-making organization dedicated exclusively to the mission of ending viral hepatitis.
By funding a variety of the most effective activities, EndHep2030 intends to overcome the barriers that prevent countries from properly addressing viral hepatitis — a pandemic that will kill 1.4 million people this year — as a global public health threat.
Our catalytic funding will speed the elimination of viral hepatitis by supporting the development of sustainable strategic plans at the national and sub-national level to guide effective program implementation; by showing how countries can optimize their human and financial resources within health budgets; by increasing the availability of country-specific data that inform where and how to intervene most efficiently and effectively; and, by building health system capacity to deliver quality hepatitis prevention and treatment services.
EndHep2030’s catalytic funding will be the spark that sets this historic effort in motion. MORE
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The boys of Baruun-Urt have a genius for mischief, a deep love for mud of any kind, and an 85% chance of being born with viral hepatitis.
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More than 10% of Mongolia’s three million people are living with chronic hepatitis infection. The chances of a mother with viral hepatitis giving birth to an infected baby who develops life-long infection can be as high as 85%.
Fortunately, though heavily burdened by the disease, Mongolia has become a champion in the fight against it. In the first year of its Healthy Liver Program, more than 350,000 people were tested, and over 70% of those diagnosed with hepatitis were provided with treatment that is life-saving and prevents infection to others.
The means to prevent and cure the disease exist now. All we need is the will — and commitment — to make it happen.
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Scientists create “golden eggs” that can treat cancer, hepatitis.
Japanese scientists at the Biomedical Research Institute at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have created hens that can lay “golden eggs” containing a protein used to treat cancer and hepatitis. These scientists used new genome editing technology to create the hens that can lay multi-million pound golden eggs with high quantities of human interferon beta at a low cost.
Health activists file PIL on treatment accessibility of Hepatitis-C in Nagaland.
HCV is a global and national concern with treatments being easily available for free, or at subsidized rates, across the country and in neighbouring States like Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram. However in Nagaland, HCV treatment and testing facilities are still not accessible or available for the general population.
India eyes 100% switch from disposable to reuse prevention syringes by 2020.
“Setting targets under the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme, the Indian health ministry had pledged to achieve 100% usage of ingineered safety devices to curtail injection related infections,” said Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, WHO-India.
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