On World Hepatitis Day (July 28), the World Health Organisation looks to strengthen the implementation of its first global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis, 2016-2021. This would take the world a step closer to achieving the final goal to ‘Eliminate Hepatitis’. The WHO will release information on national responses in 28 countries with the heaviest burden. The 11 countries carrying almost 50 per cent of the global burden of chronic hepatitis are Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda, Vietnam.

There were approximately 325 million people living with chronic hepatitis at the end of 2015Viral hepatitis caused 1.34 million deaths in 2015, comparable with TB deaths.

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