Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination

Get your abstracts ready for #IVHEM2025! The portal is open to submit abstracts now until Friday, 18 October 2024 at 23:59 CEST. All abstracts must focus on healthcare challenges related to the prevention and treatment of hepatitis. ✔️ Submission portal: https://buff.ly/4eZsx2x ✔️ IVHEM 2025 Conference details: https://buff.ly/4dvRMIQ

Drum roll, please 🥁 We are excited to announce our Grand Prize winner for the 2024 Elimination in Action Photo Contest: Photographer Jan Pilarcik. This photograph by Jan Pilarcik captures a community nurse conducting viral hepatitis testing for migrants and refugees as part of the VH-COMSAVAC (Viral Hepatitis Community Screening, Vaccination, and Care) project hosted by the Association of Senegalese Women in Terrassa, Spain. The screening was also supported by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. The VH-COMSAVAC model of care is uniquely designed to identify migrants and refugees at risk so they may receive comprehensive viral hepatitis screening, prevention, and care services for better health outcomes. Read more about the Viral Hepatitis Community Screening, Vaccination and Care Project and view this year's photo contest winning photos: https://buff.ly/3VImeti

Congratulations to Category 3 Runner-up, Photographer Ifeanyi Damian, representing Care for Social Welfare International (CASWI) 👏 Ifeanyi Damian notes that the goal of this outreach is to ensure that all people in Cross River State (Nigeria) have equal access to Hepatitis B and C services, irrespective of their disability status, in an effort to ensure health equity. Learn more about Care for Social Welfare International (CASWI) and this year's photo contest winners: https://buff.ly/3VImeti

Photographer Conor Ashleigh, who captured this captivating photo, tied for the first-place winner in Category 3 🙌 At Bathurst Correctional Centre, New South Wales, Australia, a nurse performs point-of-care hepatitis C testing for inmates. The program operates under Justice Health NSW in partnership with the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sidney, and the Australia National Hepatitis C Program. Photographer Conor Ashleigh explains: “Through the prison gates, a dedicated nurse [is] extending vital healthcare to an often-overlooked population. An inmate's hand, reaching through the bars, symbolizes both vulnerability and hope as a gloved healthcare worker collects a blood sample.” Read more on the UNSW, NSW Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network, and Australia National Hepatitic C Program initiative and view this year's winning photos here, https://buff.ly/3VImeti

📸 Congratulations to the first-place (tie) winner for Category 3 - Hepatitis Elimination is Health Equity: Ensuring hepatitis care is accessible to all, Axelle Vanderlinden. The sessions aim to raise awareness about hepatitis B, reduce stigma, and highlight the importance of testing to prevent mother-to-child transmission. Many of these mothers come from underserved, hard-to-reach communities, and this initiative ensures that vital hepatitis B information reaches vulnerable populations. Doing so promotes health equity and empowers women and their communities with the knowledge needed to prevent and manage hepatitis B. Read more about HBV education sessions in Uganda and this year's photo contest winners: https://buff.ly/3VImeti

Kudos to Edhie Purwanto on behalf of the Budi Lukmanto Foundation 📸 This photo is the second-place winner for the "Hepatitis B Prevention and Treatment: From birth dose vaccination to providing care for people living with hepatitis B" category. The Budi Lukmanto Foundation is a small non-profit organization providing no-cost HBV screening and vaccination in low-resource settings in North Jakarta, Indonesia. Over 2,100 people, including children, have been screened and vaccinated. Read more about The Budi Lukmanto Foundation: https://buff.ly/4gXSUro Check out https://buff.ly/3VImeti to read more about this year's photo contest winners!

We're happy to announce the first-place photo winner in "Hepatitis B Prevention and Treatment: From Birth Dose Vaccination to Providing Care for People Living with Hepatitis B," submitted by Marcelo Miguel Galeano Chikiriya 🎉 In 2022, a team led by Dr. Marcos Girala and Dr. Laura Galeano, along with doctors and nurses from Asunción’s clinical hospital and the local family health unit, visited the site to conduct rapid tests and examine the elderly. Between August and November 2022, 226 people were tested for HBV, with 17 testing positive for HBsAg. Monitoring and vaccination efforts were carried out during this period. In October 2023, the team returned to follow up on those who tested positive and immunized their close relatives. Check out https://buff.ly/3VImeti to read more about this year's photo contest winners!

📸 "Together, Eliminating Hepatitis (Category 1)" Runner Up: Soumyadeep Kundu representing R. G. Kar Hospital in Kolkata, India. This photo illustrates a moment of solidarity as a nurse of R. G. Kar Hospital in Kolkata, India (formerly Calcutta) engaged in the Hepatitis B vaccination program fulfills her duty. Photographer Soumyadeep Kundu explains: “I captured this moment as an important document of hepatitis vaccination.” All viral hepatitis-related services are provided free at this hospital, as part of a state health department program. Check out https://buff.ly/3VImeti to read more on this year's photo contest winners!

Congratulations to the first-place winner for Category 1: Ms. Michelle Marie T. Ajoc on behalf of the Philippines’ Department of Health Cordillera Center for Health Development👏 In 2021, 39.82% of pregnant women in the region were tested for hepatitis B, with 1.56% testing positive. By 2022, these figures improved to 47.54% tested and 1.42% positive. Batad is known for its UNESCO-listed Ifugao Rice Terraces, which make a dramatic backdrop for the care activities shown here. Read more: https://buff.ly/3VImeti

Woohoo! The time is here! We’re excited to announce our Elimination in Action 2024 Photo Contest Winners 📸 Stay tuned for a spotlight on this year's winning photos! https://buff.ly/3VImeti #HepEliminationinAction