The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the Global Policy Report on the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis, a document that brings together information on how the Organization's Member States are responding to this international public health issue.
The report is the result of a survey conducted by WHO and the World Hepatitis Alliance to find out how Member States are responding to viral hepatitis. It includes information from 126 countries around the world--27 of them in the Americas.
Washington, D.C., July 24, 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the Global Policy Report on the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis, a document that brings together information on how the Organization's Member States are responding to this international public health issue, which affects over 424 million people and kills 1.4 million people a year in the world.
The report sets out the results of a survey conducted in mid-2012 by the World Health Organization and the World Hepatitis Alliance. The survey was the outcome of a 2010 World Health Assembly resolution that urged Member States to generate reliable information as a foundation for building prevention and control measures. In the Region of the Americas, 27 countries responded to the survey.
The report describes the principal dimensions of policies and programs for the prevention and control of viral hepatitis. It also offers insight into conditions in specific countries that may have hindered past efforts to achieve hepatitis policy objectives and identifies gaps that need to be filled.
The complete document is available online.
