National viral hepatitis control program in India: Call for update
Viral hepatitis is a serious yet manageable and preventable public health menace that infects about 3 million of people and leads to 1.1 million deaths worldwide every year. An acute episode of viral hepatitis usually subsides on its own, however, if not intervened timely, chronic infection puts peo...
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| description | Viral hepatitis is a serious yet manageable and preventable public health menace that infects about 3 million of people and leads to 1.1 million deaths worldwide every year. An acute episode of viral hepatitis usually subsides on its own, however, if not intervened timely, chronic infection puts people at risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer, and eventually death. In 2015, the global community allied to tackle viral hepatitis, as a result of which combating viral hepatitis target was included in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) constituted the first-ever global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis for 2016 to 2021 which is also renewed recently. Conforming to the global commitment, India launched the National Viral Hepatitis Control Program in the year 2018 with the aim to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by the year 2030. In the Subsequent years, WHO and various other international societies have released updated recommendations with respect to vaccination, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, strategies to increase testing uptake including self-testing, newer diagnostics including point of care and reflex testing approaches, simplified treatment algorithms, expanded treatment eligibility criteria, and simplified service delivery models. With the program being in its fifth year of implementation, there is a need to revamp the operational guidelines based on various global evidence-based advancements in order to attain the ambitious elimination goal by 2030. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7a2d8749cd424cb7acf3218b0d6a570c2025-08-20T02:13:58ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632278-71352023-09-011291755175810.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1455_23National viral hepatitis control program in India: Call for updatePragya PandeyAkash RoyAjeet Singh BhadoriaViral hepatitis is a serious yet manageable and preventable public health menace that infects about 3 million of people and leads to 1.1 million deaths worldwide every year. An acute episode of viral hepatitis usually subsides on its own, however, if not intervened timely, chronic infection puts people at risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer, and eventually death. In 2015, the global community allied to tackle viral hepatitis, as a result of which combating viral hepatitis target was included in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) constituted the first-ever global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis for 2016 to 2021 which is also renewed recently. Conforming to the global commitment, India launched the National Viral Hepatitis Control Program in the year 2018 with the aim to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by the year 2030. In the Subsequent years, WHO and various other international societies have released updated recommendations with respect to vaccination, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, strategies to increase testing uptake including self-testing, newer diagnostics including point of care and reflex testing approaches, simplified treatment algorithms, expanded treatment eligibility criteria, and simplified service delivery models. With the program being in its fifth year of implementation, there is a need to revamp the operational guidelines based on various global evidence-based advancements in order to attain the ambitious elimination goal by 2030.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1455_23nvhcpviral hepatitisindia |
| spellingShingle | Pragya Pandey Akash Roy Ajeet Singh Bhadoria National viral hepatitis control program in India: Call for update Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care nvhcp viral hepatitis india |
| title | National viral hepatitis control program in India: Call for update |
| title_full | National viral hepatitis control program in India: Call for update |
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| title_short | National viral hepatitis control program in India: Call for update |
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