Towards ending viral hepatitis as a public health threat: translating new momentum into concrete results in South-East Asia | Gut Pathogens | Full Text

Towards ending viral hepatitis as a public health threat: translating new momentum into concrete results in South-East Asia | Gut Pathogens | Full Text

Gut Pathogens

Towards ending viral hepatitis as a public health threat: translating new momentum into concrete results in South-East Asia

• Poonam Khetrapal SinghEmail author

Gut Pathogens201810:9

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13099-018-0237-x

©  The Author(s) 2018

• Received: 22 February 2018
• Accepted: 26 February 2018
• Published: 5 March 2018

We are living through a “golden age” of global health with respect to communicable diseases. As a result of scientific breakthroughs, global solidarity and focused funding, mortality associated with leading communicable diseases is on the decline. Indeed, since 2000, the progress in combatting the leading communicable diseases (HIV, tuberculosis and malaria) has prompted the global community to commit to end these epidemics once and for all by 2030.