Countries in Asia Pacific are unlikely to meet their commitment to eliminate hepatitis by 2030 unless they declare a public health emergency, as they did with COVID-19, a disease specialist suggested.
SciDev.NetJul 1 2024
However, Saeed Hamid, professor and chair at the Department of Medicine at Aga Khan University, Pakistan, stressed during a 20 June forum on infectious diseases in Vietnam that, "at the current rate, most countries in the Asia Pacific will not meet the elimination target by 2030". "We need to declare an emergency in all of the high-burden countries," Hamid said, citing the unprecedented rapid response countries adopted with COVID-19 which demonstrated "that it can be done with political will".
The WHO report highlighted ten countries responsible for two-thirds of global viral hepatitis B and C burdens: China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Philippines and Russia.
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