World Hepatitis Day 2021

Key messages
Messages for the public:
- People living with hepatitis can’t wait for life saving treatments.
- Hepatitis B testing and treatment for pregnant women can’t wait. We can prevent transmission from mothers to their babies
- Newborn babies can’t wait for their hepatitis B vaccination at birth
- People affected by hepatitis can’t wait to be protected against stigma and discrimination.
- Community organisations can’t wait for greater investment.
- Decision makers can’t wait and must act now to make hepatitis elimination a reality through political will and funding.
Messages for policy makers:
- Integration of viral hepatitis elimination with other health services can’t wait.
- Funding hepatitis care can’t wait.
- Triple elimination of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis can’t wait.
- Validating hepatitis elimination efforts in countries can’t wait.
- Universal health coverage for all people with hepatitis can’t wait. Starting now means saving lives.
Messages for National leaders:
- Setting national hepatitis elimination targets can’t wait. A world without viral hepatitis by 2030 starts with your country.
- Caring for the most vulnerable people with hepatitis can’t wait. Be it young children or people who inject drugs, some people are more exposed and at risk – their lives matter.
- Scaling up of essential hepatitis services can’t wait.
- Engaging communities in hepatitis services can’t wait.
- Decision makers can’t wait and must act now to make hepatitis elimination a reality through political will and funding.