New JOURNAL article: 📑Barriers to accessing hepatitis B medication: a qualitative study from the USA and Canada – [BMJ Open] Researchers collected qualitative data through 24 online interviews. Focus ➡️ impact that HBV has on daily life. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/byAm50S7c9o

Glimpses from 1st day of #EASLCongress! Love the presence of #Patients, #LivedExperience & #Community!

Congratulations to Prof Manal El Sayed and Prof Wendy Spearman on receiving the richly-deserved EASL International Liver Health Advocacy Award 2024 for their exceptional contributions to liver disease management, political action, and educational initiatives as Presidents of

The impact of #hepB goes beyond the clinic. Thanks Thomas Tu for sharing the wide variety of complexities that come out for people directly impacted Hep B Foundation

Congratulations to Wendy Spearman and Manal El Sayed for their impressive leadership to building capacity across Africa in hepatitis and liver disease care! Well done! Hep B Foundation #easlcongress #easl

Important findings from #Stigma survey of people living w #HBV & #HCV. People fear telling family, friends, sexual partners. They also report repercussions in accessing healthcare & in their sexual relationships bc of their status. ECDC World Hepatitis Alliance

New JOURNAL article 📑 Peer support for people living with hepatitis B virus—A foundation for treatment expansion [Journal of Viral Hepatitis] 🔊We can use experience from HIV and HCV programmes to inform development of peer support for HBV.🤝🏽🪄 📲onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jv…

If you are at #EASLCongress, #NoHep Medical Visionaries is today at 10 am in the Viral Hepatitis track hub (abstract area)! NOhep Maria Buti King's College NHS

🚨ONE WEEK LEFT for you to showcase your research findings to the world's top experts! ▶️Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 14 June 2024 ▶️ Submit Your Abstract Here >> lnkd.in/gasVe8kC Asgeir Johannessen EASL Education GHASSA Jasmohan Bajaj Africa HepatoPancreatoBiliary Cancer Consortium Catherine Freeland

New BLOG🪶CHIPO Partner Highlight: Hepatitis Aid Organization Highlighting the work of Hepatitis Aid Organisation , and their Executive Director, Lutamaguzi Emmanuel, as he describes successes and challenges building hepatitis care capacity and more. Read more 📲 ow.ly/SB1t50S8WcX

Expanding treatment criteria in #HBV - a thread. Listening to the discussion about this at the Future of Hepatology session this morning at #EASLCongress. Some excellent discussion points. But once again the issue of patient adherence and lost to follow up was raised! 1/

Come join us in the gold room at #easlcongress EASLnews to discuss the new World Health Organization (WHO) hepB guidelines and updates! Hep B Foundation

Happy to have participated in #easlcongress 2024. Encouraging to see that we are slowly moving towards patient centered care discussions in #hepB -We have made progress but we have lots of work to do to implement this in practice.

NEWS 📰 Quality of life of people living with chronic hepatitis B: The role of social support system – [PLOS Global Public Health] 🔊 Social support can play an important role for PLCHB, and more studies are needed to explore this. 📲 ow.ly/1EJE50RFM1Y

Our latest publication in the BMC Public Health Journal highlights hepatitis B discrimination global responses requiring global data bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We are thrilled to announce that we are expanding our vaccine portfolio to include preventative measures for #Ebola, meningitis, rabies and hepatitis B in lower-income regions. Read more: bit.ly/3KGG029

“Gavi … today announced that the lower-income countries it supports can now apply to introduce four additional vaccines [including] hepatitis B birth dose” #LiverTwitter #NoHep #ViralHepatitis

Great news for the hepatitis community! Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has announced support for lower-income countries in the routine administration of hepatitis B birth dose vaccines, human rabies vaccines for post-exposure prophylaxis, and multivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines. The hepatitis