By: The World Health Organization, 10 April 2024 According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, the number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis is increasing. The disease is the second leading infectious cause of death globally — with 1.3 million deaths per year, the same as tuberculosis, a top infectious…
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The Indonesian Directorate General of Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Health in collaboration with Peduli Hati Bangsa, Jakarta has developed “Implementation guidelines for Community-led monitoring (CLM) of hepatitis B and C services in Indonesia”. This is the first national program adoption of indicators developed by community groups on hepatitis B and C. …
August 4, 2023 In a global health emergency that gets little attention, roughly 300 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and 820,000 died of HBV-related complications in 2019 alone. The Asia-Pacific region bears the highest overall burden of HBV, with 59% of those living with chronic HBV, 26% of…
On 27-28 April 2023, Peduli Hati Bangsa had the opportunity to take part in Access to emerging medications for the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B and HIV consultation meeting organized by TREAT Asia/amfAR in Bangkok. The aim of this meeting was to review morbidity and mortality data specifically in the Hepatitis B region in…
During 2020 and 2021, a novel coronavirus morphed from a local outbreak into a pandemic, reaching 30 countries in its first months after becoming locally established and leading to the death of 23 million people by September 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic and the response, including travel restrictions, population lockdowns, and other disruptions, caused median global…