Just 12 countries worldwide on track to eliminate hepatitis C infection by 2030, with United Kingdom, Italy and Spain among those joining the list
New data on the world’s hepatitis C epidemic, presented at this week’s Global Hepatitis Summit in Toronto, Canada (14-17 June) shows that only 12 countries in the world are on track to meet the WHO elimination targets that 194 countries globally signed up to in 2016. The data is presented by Dr Homie Razavi and his team from the Polaris Observatory, Center for Disease Analysis Foundation (CDAF), Lafayette, CO, USA.
Since the last global update in 2017, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and Mongolia have all been added to the list, thanks to the number of patients they treated in 2017, plus the lifting of treatment restrictions to include all patients with hepatitis C regardless of their degree of liver damage. These countries join the others already on track to eliminate by 2030: Australia, Egypt, France, Georgia, Iceland, Japan and the Netherlands. In all cases, these countries are treating at least 7% of their infected population each year, and have opened treatment up to all those infected.
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