O22 The International Coalition to Eliminate Hepatitis B

The Asian American hepatitis B program: building a coalition to address hepatitis B health disparities.

BACKGROUND Community coalitions are increasingly recognized as important strategies for addressing health disparities. By providing the opportunity to pool resources, they provide a means to develop and sustain innovative approaches to affect community health. OBJECTIVES This article describes the challenges and lessons learned in building the Asian American Hepatitis B Program (AAHBP) coalit...

can Isolated hepatitis B core antibody in HIV-infected patients response to hepatitis B vaccine help to elucidate the cause?

Eliminate hepatitis: WHO

27 JUlY 2017 | GEnEVa DNew WHO data from 28 countries representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World Hepatitis Day, the data reveal that nearly all 28 countries have established high-level national hepatitis elimination committees (with plans and targets in place) and more than hal...

Building the evidence base to eliminate hepatitis B and C as public health threats.

www.thelancet.com/infection Published online September 5, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30272-9 1 The rigorous analysis of evidence by Kali Zhou and colleagues is a benchmark endeavour that reveals both the evidence-based interventions that improve hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and linkage to care and treatment (ie, the care cascade), and the major r...

Habitat International Coalition

Background: The aim of the study was to investigate urine matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-2 and -9) activity, alkaline phosphatase/creatinine (U-AP/Cr) and gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase/ creatinine (U-GGT/Cr) ratios, glucose concentration, and urine protein/creatinine (U-Prot/Cr) ratio and to compare data with plasma MMP-2 and -9 activity, cystatin-C and creatinine concentrations in colic horses ...