Just 12 countries worldwide on track to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030, with United Kingdom, Italy and Spain among those joining the list

Just 12 countries worldwide on track to eliminate hepatitis C infection by 2030, with United Kingdom, Italy and Spain among those joining the list

June 16, 2018 by Kimberly Murphy

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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Liver Cancer a Big Threat to U.S., Other Developed Nations

Liver Cancer a Big Threat to U.S., Other Developed Nations

FRIDAY, June 15, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Liver cancer cases in several developed countries have doubled in the past 25 years, due to the continuing obesity epidemic and a spike in hepatitis infections, new research suggests.

Even worse, the sharp rise in liver cancer cases is starting to swamp the limited number of liver specialists in those nations, the researchers added.

In the four countries -- the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada -- liver cancer is the only major cancer for which death rates are rising.

The findings were to be presented Friday at the Global Hepatitis Summit, in Toronto. Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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