World Hepatitis Day, 28 July 2017

World Hepatitis Day, 28 July 2017

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 28 July of each year as World Hepatitis Day. Led by the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), this year's theme is 'Eliminate Hepatitis'.

We have brought together the most relevant, highly influential research to help spread awareness. 

Why not also test your knowledge on the virus - Take the World Hepatitis Day Quiz!

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Associations of criminal justice and substance use treatment involvement with HIV/HCV testing and the HIV treatment cascade among people who use drugs in Oakland, California

From Archives of Public Health

A study on HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B and C virus infections among female sex workers in the Republic of Congo

From BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Inhibition of emotional needs and emotional wellbeing predict disease progression of chronic hepatitis C patients: an 8-year prospective study

From BMC Gastroenterology

Comparison of the long-term efficacy between entecavir and tenofovir in treatment- naïve chronic hepatitis B patients

Telbivudine treatment started in early and middle pregnancy completely blocks HBV vertical transmission

From BMC Health Services Research

Assessment of Educational Needs and Quality of Life of Chronic Hepatitis Patients

Effectiveness of triple therapy with direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C genotype 1 infection: application of propensity score matching in a national HCV treatment registry

Hepatitis C hospitalizations in Spain, 2004-2013: a retrospective epidemiological study

Language support for linguistic minority chronic hepatitis B/C patients: an exploratory study of availability and clinicians’ perceptions of language barriers in six European countries

The level of nurses' knowledge on occupational post exposure to hepatitis B infection in the Tamale metropolis, Ghana

​​​​​​​From BMC Infectious Diseases

Assessing the knowledge of expectant mothers on mother–to-child transmission of viral hepatitis B in Upper West region of Ghana

Early experiences from one of the first treatment programs for chronic hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa

From BMC Public Health

Employment-related difficulties and distressed living condition in patients with hepatitis B virus: A qualitative and quantitative study

Progress in vaccination towards hepatitis B control and elimination in the Region of the Americas

From Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology a Springer Nature journal

Adventures in Developing an App for Covert Hepatic Encephalopathy

Cost-Effectiveness of Risk Score–Stratified Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening in Patients with Cirrhosis

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Therapy Improves Patient and Caregiver-Reported Outcomes in Cirrhosis

From Harm Reduction Journal

Social-structural factors influencing periods of injection cessation among marginalized youth who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: an ethno-epidemiological study

More from Hepatology, Medicine and Policy 

Knowledge about hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infection and consequences: a cross-sectional assessment of baseline knowledge among infected patients in West Bengal, India

The Berlin Hepatitis C Manifesto: access to prevention, testing, treatment and care for people who use drugs

The hurdle with remaining risk for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients after a hepatitis C cure

Insights on the Russian HCV care cascade: minimal HCV treatment for HIV/HCV co-infected PWID in St. Petersburg

From Implementation Science

The association between implementation strategy use and the uptake of hepatitis C treatment in a national sample

From International Journal for Equity in Health

Access to treatment for Hepatitis C among injection drug users: results from the cross-sectional HOPE IV study