World Hepatitis Summit 2015

infohep news

• Finance, funding & health economics

  Cost of comprehensive global viral hepatitis prevention and treatment effort might peak at $11 billion in 2025

  Keith Alcorn / 15 September 2015

  Reaching the World Health Organization’s proposed targets for viral hepatitis control by 2030 could require global funding of $11 billion per year by 2025, Stefan Wiktor of the WHO Hepatitis Programme told ...

• Access to medicines & diagnostics

  Medicines Patent Pool looks at hepatitis C

  Keith Alcorn / 14 September 2015

  Greg Perry, Executive Director of the Medicines Patent Pool, told delegates at the World Hepatitis Summit in Glasgow last week that the organisation was considering how it could act to speed up ...

• International policy

  World Health Organization calls for ambitious global targets for viral hepatitis control

  Keith Alcorn / 03 September 2015

  The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for ambitious new global targets for diagnosis, treatment and cure of viral hepatitis, signalling a major increase in momentum towards elimination of viral hepatitis by 2030. Dr ...