Note from our CEO
2018 marks a dawn of new beginnings
for us here at the World Hepatitis
Alliance. With the new year, we
welcome Michael Ninburg as our new
President and look forward to working
together with him to achieve our vision
for hepatitis. We have launched a
new strategy to focus our activities for
2018-2020 – turn to page 6 to find out
how you can make an impact with us.
We’re also introducing a new look for
hepVoice. This month we’ve got some
great new features – do get involved
and share your contributions to help
make the magazine work for you. We
look forward to embarking on this new
era for WHA with you.
We hope you enjoy reading!
Contents
Regulars
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This month in numbers
A round-up of some of this
month’s stand-out facts and
figures:
hepatitis C treatment, WHA members, NOhep Village
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Hep headlines
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government commitments, hepatitis A outbreak,
advocacy in the USA
For the diary
World Cancer Day, Zero Discrimination Day
Features
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In action: 5 ways to make an impact in 2018
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1000
courses of hepatitis C
treatment donated to the Ministry
of Health of Argentina by the Messi
Foundation.
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new member organisations
welcomed to the World Hepatitis
Alliance in December 2017.
Be part of our activities in 2018
Focus: Deaths from liver cancer on the rise
New data reveals deaths from liver cancer nearly
doubled
This month in
numbers
Wall of Stories snapshots: Life after cure
Aleksey Lakhov shares his experiences
16 (46%) of the 35 European
countries and jurisdictions require
patients to have fibrosis at stage
F2 or higher for reimbursement of
interferon-free DAAs, according to
findings from the Lancet.
6 funded exhibition spaces
Raquel Peck
Chief Executive Officer
available in the NOhep Village at
the Global Hepatitis Summit.
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