Ousman BM Bah, Research clinician won the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL –SOLDA) abstract Award. His study focuses on the impact of EASL guideline on hepatitis B treatment criteria in Africa, analyzing the PROLIFICA study in The Gambia post-hoc.

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Bakary Dibba, Research Coordinator won the Best Oral Abstract Award for his research on Prevalence & severity of Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic Liver disease in type 2 diabetic, hypertension, overweight or obese patients in #Gambia and South Africa.

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🎉🎉🎉Big congratulations to our Hepatitis Group, for their outstanding achievement at the 8th Conference on Liver Disease in Africa (COLDA 2025), organised by the Society on Liver Disease in Africa (SOLDA) in Accra, #Ghana.

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Photo of presentation showing results of hepatitis stigma survey led by ECDC and world hepatitis alliance

Session led by @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
#COLDA2025 representing lived experience including #stigma and #discrimination for people living with #HBV.
A threat to wellbeing and a roadblock on progress to #elimination.
#NoHep #MedSky 🧪

Funding crisis for #HBV in #WHO #Africa region…
A survey shows
⚠️0%⚠️
have sufficient funding to enact priority interventions for agreed international targets for #elimination.

Presented by Dr Akudo Ikpeazu
#COLDA2025 #SOLDA #NoHep #PublicHealth #hepatitis
@who.int
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Resharing our questionnaire on #funding cuts to coincide with #COLDA2025 #liver meeting in #Ghana for anyone working in the field of viral #hepatitis, or with lived experience... wherever you are in the world.

Please share!
#SOLDA #PublicHealth #MedSky #LiverSky #HepB #NoHep
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🧪 Got research on liver disease?
📢 COLDA 2025 is still accepting abstracts—deadline: 20 June!

Be part of the 8th edition in Accra, Ghana.
🌍 Submissions in English & French welcome.

🔗 Submit now:
virology.eventsair.com/colda-2025/a...

#COLDA2025 #LiverHealth #GlobalHealth #CallForAbstracts