The Liver Meeting 2020-Global Symposium Global Elimination of Hepatitis C: From Ideas to Action

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Video Summary

The video transcript highlights the efforts towards global elimination of hepatitis C, with a focus on discussions held during a symposium featuring speakers from different regions like Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America, and North America. Dr. Stacey Truskin and Dr. Michael Freed moderated the symposium, which explored progress and challenges in simplifying diagnostic and treatment algorithms to achieve the test and cure protocol for hepatitis C virus (HCV) globally. Each speaker shared strategies for viral hepatitis elimination in their respective regions, highlighting key priority populations, prevention methods, treatment access, and micro-elimination projects. The speakers stressed the importance of addressing stigma, reaching priority populations like people who inject drugs, ensuring needle syringe exchange programs, and promoting access to treatment without restrictions. The video emphasized the need for capacity building, task-shifting, and collaboration with primary care providers to achieve hepatitis C elimination goals by 2030. The speakers showcased examples of successful elimination efforts in countries like Iceland, Spain, and Prince Edward Island in Canada. They also outlined challenges and progress in countries like Russia and Mexico. The symposium highlighted the importance of a people-centered health system approach, partnership integration, government engagement, and funding, emphasizing the urgency to target testing and treatment to accelerate the regional response towards hepatitis C elimination.

Keywords

hepatitis C

global elimination

symposium

diagnostic algorithms

treatment protocols

viral hepatitis

priority populations

stigma

micro-elimination projects