Report of the Sixty-Seventh World Health Assembly on Improving the Health of Patients with Viral Hepatitis

The Health Assembly adopted resolution on viral hepatitis, in which, inter alia, it urged Member States to support or enable an integrated and cost-effective approach to the prevention, control and management of viral hepatitis. To facilitate implementation of the resolution, the Secretariat established the global hepatitis programme. In 2012, the Secretariat issued a framework for global action to prevent and control viral hepatitis infection, which aligned actions along four strategic axes: (1) raising awareness, promoting partnerships and mobilizing resources; (2)evidence-based policy and data for action; (3) prevention of transmission; and (4) screening, care and treatment.