Note from our CEO
World Hepatitis Day created an incredible
amount of momentum in the fight to eliminate
hepatitis. We have seen this momentum used
to deliver actions all over the world, with
WHA members playing leading roles in their
countries elimination goals through on the
ground activities, advocacy and awareness
campaigns. It is important that the momentum
is kept up f we are to reach the 2030 goal of
elimination.
Our “Find the Missing Millions” campaign
is being used by our members to increase
diagnosis through projects and advocacy to
ensure testing and diagnosis is available to the
290 million people unaware of their illness.
You can read about how WHA member the
National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh
are running their Find the Missing Millions
campaign on page 8.
At WHA we are working on our strategy for
next year already and have exciting plans to
expand our work, continuing to empower
our members to make the elimination of viral
hepatitis a reality. We look forward to sharing
these plans with you soon.
Contents
Regulars
3
This month in numbers
This month in
numbers
A round-up of some of this
month’s stand-out facts and
figures:
Hepatitis in numbers
4
Hep headlines
Hepatitis news from around the world
5
For the diary
Dates coming up for the diary
20% Fall in deaths from liver
failure or liver cancer caused by
hepatitis C in the UK and Australia.
39.2% of recent injection
drug users are living with HCV.
Features
6
WHA President, Michael Ninburg
at Australasian viral hepatitis conference.
The highlights of his speech
8
media impressions for the
#Findthemissingmillions campaign
Find the missing millions: examples from
around the world: Bangladesh
Lessons learnt from the National Liver Foundation of
Bangladesh
10 Wall of Stories snapshots:
500,000 social
Baltazar from the Philippines shares his story
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Raquel Peck
Chief Executive Officer
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