欧洲肝脏患者协会和HEP核心:主动监视欧洲国家对HBV和HCV的斗争

Tatjana Reic是欧洲肝脏患者协会。在这里,她讨论了开创性的HEP核心研究,以及监测消除病毒肝炎的国家努力的重要性。

hep2到目前为止,2016年是针对病毒肝炎的斗争中取得了显着进步的一年。随着最近的第一个介绍全球卫生部门在病毒肝炎上通过世界卫生组织(WHO),世界各地的利益相关者开始围绕世界卫生组织的目标集结,以消除病毒肝炎作为2030年的公共卫生威胁。

该策略为我们提供了基于最佳可用科学证据的共同战略方向和优先行动。因此,它是国家用于发展其病毒性肝炎流行病的更集中反应的必不可少的工具。

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Tatjana Reic在2016年国际肝脏大会上发言

然而,仍然缺乏的是系统地评估国家水平消除病毒肝炎的努力的机制。

欧洲肝脏患者协会(ELPA)期待看到监控弗拉姆号ework that WHO is in the process of developing. At the same time, we decided it was necessary to take immediate action because people are dying every day from complications of untreated viral hepatitis.

HEP核心研究

ELPA委托进行HEP核心研究,以记录ELPA成员国如何解决丙型肝炎病毒(HBV)和丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)预防和治疗,以帮助填补欧洲的监测空隙。now,2016年中。

Only 14 of the 23 countries represented in the initial Hep-CORE analysis were reported to have viral hepatitis strategies.

HEP核心研究已招募了一个ELPA成员组或来自每个国家的团体联盟,以完成有关其国家对HBV和HCV反应的关键方面的调查。调查主题包括病毒肝炎政策,疾病监测,预防,测试和治疗。研究员Jeff LazarusELPA的长期朋友,与我们并与著名的国际研究小组紧密合作,以开发这项非常全面的调查。

In the three short weeks since data collection began, we have seen fantastic participation from ELPA member groups. Preliminary data on some topics are already in from 23 countries, and this information raises important concerns.

For example, despite a 2014 World Health Assembly resolution on viral hepatitis calling for all WHO Member States to develop and implement national strategies, only 14 of the 23 countries represented in the initial Hep-CORE analysis were reported to have viral hepatitis strategies. In three of these countries, the strategies do not take into account HBV, instead focusing solely on HCV.

作为肝炎患者,我们已经准备好,愿意并且能够帮助各国如何在消除病毒性肝炎的挑战方面前进。

政策差距

其他调查问题的重点是为注射药物(PWID)的人减少伤害服务,该组织特别容易受到病毒肝炎的影响。据据说,在23个国家 /地区代表的23个国家中,有18个国家在其各个国家的所有地区都有阿片类药物替代治疗,但据报道,在23个国家中,只有7个在该国所有地区都有针和注射器计划。鉴于在病毒肝炎危机中注射实践的主要作用,这是一个政策差距,可能对某些欧洲国家产生可怕的影响。

尽管各种各样类型的利益相关者在努力消除病毒肝炎方面起着重要作用未来几个月和几年。

ELPA’s patient groups already have demonstrated their might in many ways, with their advocacy and expert advice fostering more enlightened government responses to HBV and HCV in Europe. With the Hep-CORE study, we are taking our involvement to the next level. We as hepatitis patients are ready, willing and able to help usher in a new era of accountability in regard to how countries move forward on the challenge of eliminating viral hepatitis.

We very much look forward to seeing the full results of the Hep-CORE survey reported later this year.

有关HEP核的更多信息可以在此找到新闻稿来自Elpa。


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