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.
Scientists call on countries to 'declare health emergency' to end hepatitis in AsiaA microscopic image of the Hepatitis B virus, taken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
However, Saeed Hamid, professor and chair at the Department of Medicine at Aga Khan University, Pakistan, stressed during a 20 June forum onin 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."
John Ward, director at the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, considered this as regrettable since"we have a vaccine for hepatitis B for 40 years now. In fact, it is one of the success stories we had."
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