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This session focuses on hepatitis B global epidemiology, as well as hepatitis D testing, management and treatment. This interactive session discusses how we can work together to improve awareness and testing for HBV co-infection.

NASTAD, in collaboration with the CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis, developed the “Viral Hepatitis Testing: Health System Assessment Toolkit,” a comprehensive resource that includes information and considerations for creating a jurisdiction-specific health system assessment (HSA) in response to...

This packet of recommendations discusses how in October 2022, INHSU Prisons and the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination (CGHE), Task Force for Global Health convened a workshop on the strategies for expanding access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevention, testing, and treatment in prison...

This report summarizes that the third WHS was held as a predominately virtual event in 2022, with a small in-person hub at the World Health Organization in Geneva, with the theme of “Achieving the elimination of viral hepatitis within evolving health systems”. The programme introduced the new Global...

This slide set is an audiovisual educational tool that explains the importance of getting babies vaccinated against hepatitis B. It discusses hepatitis transmission, testing for the pregnant woman to determine if she has hepatitis B, and routine hepatitis B vaccine for babies.

This information sheet provides general information about hepatitis B. It explains the disease; provides statistics on hepatitis B in the United States; and discusses at-risk persons, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Hepatitis B. It promotes vaccine as the best method of...

This information sheet describes hepatitis B and explains how the disease is transmitted. It emphasizes that babies are at risk for hepatitis B. Since hepatitis is preventable, this pamphlet advises pregnant women to get tested routinely as part of their prenatal care. It promotes vaccine as one of...

This information sheet explains the blood test called a Hepatitis C Antibody Test, which is used to determine whether an individual was ever infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The test searches for HCV antibodies. The information sheet discusses the meaning of a non-reactive hepatitis C...

This information sheet presents important facts about viral hepatitis A, B, and C. For all three hepatitis types, it provides information regarding vaccines, statistics, where the virus is found in the body, how it is spread, what happens when a person is infected, and public health strategies.