Communication campaigns on World Hepatitis Day
Every year on 28 July, World Hepatitis Day is held to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
World Hepatitis Day 2025: Hepatitis burden remains high across the EU/EEA, with the majority of people unaware they are infected
Marking World Hepatitis Day, data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reveal a significant public health challenge. An estimated five million people in the European Union and European Economic area (EU/EEA) are living with chronic hepatitis B or C – infections that are leading causes of liver disease and cancer – with the majority of people unaware they are infected.
World Hepatitis Day 2024: Tackling viral hepatitis, key to reducing liver cancer toll
On World Hepatitis Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) highlights the ongoing public health challenges posed by hepatitis B and C infections, major risk factors for liver cancer in Europe
World Hepatitis Day 2023: need to scale up efforts to address hepatitis B and C
World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
World Hepatitis Day 2022
World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
World Hepatitis Day 2021
World Hepatitis Day is commemorated yearly on 28 July to increase awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis as a global priority.
World Hepatitis Day 2020
ECDC coordinates the enhanced surveillance for hepatitis A, B and C to help countries define epidemiological trends or transmission patterns among newly diagnosed cases.
World Hepatitis Day on 28 July provides an opportunity each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
Spring European Testing Week 2020
European Testing Week is a European campaign that encourages partner organisations, in community, health care and policy institutions, throughout Europe to unite for one week twice a year to increase testing efforts and promote awareness on the benefits of earlier hepatitis and HIV testing.
World Hepatitis Day 2019
World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.
World Hepatitis Day 2018
On the occasion of World Hepatitis Day, ECDC launched online prevalence database for hepatitis B and C which included data mainly based on peer-reviewed cross sectional studies from 2006 onwards.
World Hepatitis Day 2017
The theme of World Hepatitis Day 2017 was the elimination of viral hepatitis
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World Hepatitis Day 2016
This infographic explains the different types of hepatitis and explains what has to be done to eliminate viral hepatits as a public health threat in Europe