July 19th, 2017 stakeholders meeting, initiated by Alliance for Public Health (Alliance), was conducted with involvement of Ministry of health of Ukraine, Public Health Center, WHO office in Ukraine and non-governmental organizations, namely Alliance, All-Ukrainian network of PLHIV and up to 30 NGOs from majority ukrainian regions.
Participants discussed general vision and action-oriented proposals on situation with viral hepatitis in Ukraine and steps required for hepatitis elimination in Ukraine.
As a result of discussions, participants approved the Resolution on viral hepatitis, which includes development and endorsement of National hepatitis elimination strategy and corresponding action plan.
Also development of surveillance system, immunization strengthening, development and endorsement of the donorship policy, prevention services for general and vulnerable populations, guaranteed inclusion of vulnerable groups into treatment programs, etc were included into the Resolution.
Ministry of health of Ukraine and Public Health Center attended the meeting as co-organizers.
In addition, Alliance announced new HCV treatment project for vulnerable groups with application of “test&treat” approach, which allows to shorten the time and number of test from the moment a positive HCV test results is received and before receiving treatment with the preservation of the therapeutic efficacy.
Full test of the resolution available here