Policy Statements
The section includes partners’ policy and advocacy statements that can aid activists in their messaging and calls to action.
Materials in this section
EASL Policy Statement: Drug Use and the Global Hepatitis C Elimination Goal
EASL made a bold policy statement, based on a science-based policy brief, to lift treatment barriers and decriminalize drug use as part of elimination strategies. More
African Declaration to Eliminate Hepatitis C and Improve the Health of People Who Use Drugs
Cape Town, South Africa, 20 February 2020
People working to eliminate hepatitis C in the African region express alarm regarding the increasing impact of drug use, hepatitis C, and other viral co-infections on the well-being of PWUD. More
Global Declaration to Eliminate Hepatitis C in People Who Use Drugs: A Call for Political Leaders to Take Action
Sign the pledge! If elimination by 2030 is to be achieved, the global community needs to act immediately. More
World Hepatitis Summit: No Elimination Without Decriminalization!
18 civil society organisations call world leaders to promote harm reduction and decriminalise drug use
Patients, clinicians, social workers, drug using community, researchers, and public health experts express their support to the WHO’s goal to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030. More
Call to Action to Scale Up Global Hepatitis Response
Global Partners’ Meeting on Hepatitis (convened by WHO in March 2014 in Geneva)
Participants of the first Global Partners’ Meeting on Hepatitis agreed on a historic "call to action" pressing the global community for immediate action to scale up global hepatitis response. More
Defuse Hepatitis C, the Viral Time Bomb: Test and Treat Hepatitis C
Position paper for the 67th World Health Assembly, 19–24 May 2014
People living with HCV, HIV/AIDS, people who use drugs, and their advocates, urge United Nations Member States to act with urgency to end the hepatitis C epidemic; it is possible! More
