🎉 Australia’s 4th National Hepatitis B Strategy 2025–2030 has launched!

To reach elimination, we must centre people living with hep B—their voices are essential.

Let’s walk the roadmap together 💚
#NOhep #HepBElimination


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Australia's Fourth National Hepatitis B Strategy 2025 - 2030 was launched today. It maps the way to elimination of hepatitis B by 2030. #NOhep
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Interesting to see this from #GSK... but lots of questions that still need answering (especially 'please can we see the data?'). Noting functional cure is still attained for a minority with #Bepi, and only when taken on top of standard of care #therapy with NA agents. #MedSky #LiverSky #HBV #NoHep 🧪

Say it louder for those at the back…

#NOhep

Fig. 2: The care cascade of HBV infection and the current gaps

REVIEW | Global burden of #hepatitisB virus: current status, missed opportunities and a call for action
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Full-text link: rdcu.be/eTFsa

This figure shows the care cascade of HBV infection and current gaps
#HBV #NoHep #hepatitis #Liversky

ACIP Votes to End Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination If implemented, this change would put millions of children at greater risk of liver damage, cancer and early death—for no good reason

open.substack.com/pub/tomfried.... A bad day for one of the cornerstones towards elimination of viral hepatitis. I hope that African countries see the folly of our American colleagues and do not follow suit. We are already lagging behind the targets to be distracted by this. #NoHep

Picture of mug with big text Vaccines cause adults’

It’s a crucial moment to say this again, loudly:
#vaccines cause adults.
Let’s keep causing adults.

🧪 #HBV #NoHep #vaccineswork #MedSky #HepSky #IDSky #PublicHealth @who.int
@gavi.org @altcdc.altgov.info @worldhepalliance.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who joined us for #HepTestWeek!

Your engagement, passion, and commitment help drive the global movement for hepatitis elimination.

We’d love to see what you did last week. Share your activities with us at: contact@worldhepatitisalliance.org

#NOhep #HepCantWait

Hepatitis B reactivation following switch away from tenofovir-containing anti-retroviral therapy in people living with HIV: A case series and lessons for practice Abstract. The potential for hepatitis B reactivation must be considered when switching people with HIV and prior hepatitis B exposure away from tenofovir-c

#HepatitisB #reactivation in people living with #HIV when switched off #tenofovir... could become more of an issue as we move to dual #treatment and long-acting HIV regimens.
#MedSky #IDSky #HIVSky #PLWH #HBV #NoHep
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doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
@cidjournal.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk @uclh.bsky.social

MoLo team: a team photo showing clinicians, scientists & community members working in partnership

Leaflets about hepatitis B in Mongolian - with thanks to the British Liver Trust.

Clinical team in the clinic van - thanks to University College London Hospitals Inclusion Health team

NHS mobile services - photo of clinic in a van, thanks to the Inclusion Health Team

Project 'MoLo' for #Mongolians in #London offering education & screening focusing on #liver & #metabolic health & viral #hepatitis - fantastic community uptake.
#MedSky #LiverSky #PublicHealth #Mongolia #NHS #NoHep #InclusionHealth #HBV
@emilymartyn.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social
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YOUTHAID Liberia, as part of the #NOhep Mums programme on accelerating access to antenatal hepatitis B testing, held a one-day training for healthcare workers in Montserrado on hepatitis B screening, counselling, infection prevention, and data reporting.

A full room at our #NOhep Medical Visionaries Forum yesterday at #TLM25 discussing how the latest hepatitis B guidelines affect real-world care – particularly in low-resource & community settings.

Attending #TLM25, join our #NOhep Medical Visionaries Forum tomorrow to explore how the latest hepatitis B guidelines affect real-world care – particularly in low-resource and community settings.

⏰ 7-8 am EST
📍Marquis Ballroom Salon 14

Register: https://bit.ly/4hJ5NX5

HEP-HOP - ISGLOBAL The EU-funded HEP-HOP project, coordinated by ISGlobal, works to improve hepatitis B and C prevention, screening, and care among migrants and refugees in Belgium, Latvia, and Spain. By tackling vaccine hesitancy and misinformation, training community health workers, and promoting equitable access to care, HEP-HOP supports the WHO hepatitis elimination goals and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan.

Coordinated by #ISGlobal, #HEPHOPproject supports @WHO’s goal to eliminate #ViralHhepatitis by 2030.

By addressing misinformation and improving access to vaccination, it promotes #HealthForAll.

🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/vhjjqtdkog

#Hepatitis #GlobalHealth #HepatitisElimination #NoHep

Attending #TLM25, join our #NOhep Medical Visionaries Forum to explore how the latest hepatitis B guidelines affect real-world care – particularly in low-resource & community settings.

🗓️ Sunday 9 Nov
⏰ 7-8 am EST
📍Marquis Ballroom Salon 14

Register: https://bit.ly/4hJ5NX5

FAD Juventud, la POP e ISGlobal reciben premios por su labor en prevención y salud futura Estas tres instituciones han recibido el premio por la prevención en la infancia y juventud, en enfermedades crónicas y en infecciosas, respectivamente

¡Enhorabuena al Public Health Liver Group de #ISGlobal!

El proyecto #VHCOMSAVAC ha recibido el Premio a la Prevención de Enfermedades Infecciosas por su labor en la detección, prevención y atención frente a la #hepatitis viral.

#SaludGlobal #NoHep

“It would be better for those of us who have the disease not to be ashamed”: Insights from people living with chronic hepatitis B virus infection and healthcare workers providing HBV care in Kilifi, K... Chronic hepatitis B infection (CHB) causes over 1 million deaths annually, with a large burden of morbidity and mortality in the WHO-African Region (WHO-AFRO) where <5% of people are diagnosed and 0.2...

Community engagement in #Kilifi #Kenya to understand experiences & barriers to care for people living with #hepatitis #HBV in #Africa.

@lou-downs.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@ndm.ox.ac.uk
@kemriwellcome.bsky.social
#MedSky #IDSky #stigma #NoHep 🧪

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Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Treatment Eligibility in the UK: Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Data to Explore the Impact of Changes in Clinical Guidelines Nucleos/tide analogue (NA) drugs are used for long-term treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, with treatment eligibility criteria changing rapidly amidst globally evolving clinical ....

#Treatment of #hepatitisB infection: huge consortium effort via the Health Informatics Collaborative. 🧪
#NHS data to inform clinical care, public health practice, funding & policy. #MedSky #HBV #NoHep
@nihr.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1111/jvh....

Photo of Dorcas and Louise with first prize certificate

Photo of members of the Matthews group for hepatitis elimination at COLDA in Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭

Shout out to @lou-downs.bsky.social & Dorcas Okanda for a prize at #COLDA. Their #HBV work in #Kenya expands insights in a neglected space, using #virus #genomics to influence healthcare.
#MedSky #NoHep
@crick.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
@kemriwellcome.bsky.social
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Tackling liver #cancer ↔️ tackling viral #hepatitis.
#vaccineswork not only to prevent infection but to prevent cancer.
#HBV vaccine is safe, effective and cheap. A dose at birth, and 3 doses in infancy (together with other vaccines) can prevent lifelong infection & disease.
🧪 #NoHep #vaccination

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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Screenshot showing call to the meeting "COLDA 2025: a global gathering on liver disease"

Photo of delegates arriving at COLDA meeting in Accra, Ghana

Shout out for #COLDA meeting launching in #Ghana.
Starting with discussions on #hepatitis #HBV guidelines & implementation for #Africa

Anyone else here on @bsky.app?

Hosted by #SOLDA Society on Liver Disease in Africa www.solda-society.org
#NoHep #CDCAfrica #LiverSky #MedSky #HepSky @who.int
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📢 Call to anyone working in - or affected by - #HIV #HBV #hepatitis, as we gather data about impact of #funding cuts.
Can you help with a short questionnaire? link here ⬇️
forms.gle/nUJZFpMTdiwB...
Can be anonymous. Preliminary results in this thread.
#PEPFAR #CDC #NIH #MedSky #LiverSky #NoHep 🧪

Photo of sunrise over the canal in Berlin

Slide to show the HBV reservoirs in the liver - the main obstacle for achieving HBV functional cure (HBV cccDNA and HBV DNA integrations). Slide credit Maura Dandri.

International #HBV meeting this morning in #Berlin hosted by @ice-hbv.bsky.social ...targeting the #liver reservoir by gene editing, technologies working for #DNA & #RNA.
Great to see investment in new antiviral therapeutics emerging, aiming for #hepatitis B #cure.
#NoHep #LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky 🧪

#Hepatitis D recognised as a #carcinogen.
Too long neglected... but with better monitoring & treatment becoming available we need to raise awareness & commit resources. We can also act by preventing #HBV because #vaccineswork.
www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
@who.int #NoHep #MedSky 🧪

Research, clinical care and public health interventions for #HBV have always lagged behind #HIV. We wrote this article recognising there may be overlooked consequences for babies and children exposed to #hepatitis B, even if they don’t develop chronic #infection.
#LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky #NoHep
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I work in #hepatitis #research… from lab to clinic to public health to policy (and back to lab). We are UK based but with amazing team members & partners in South Africa, Uganda, Kenya.
Really hope we can get BlueSky to work as well as Twitter used to.
🦋🧪🌍🦠🧬🩺
#NoHep #HepSky #MedSky
@crick.ac.uk

Scientific and medical evidence informing expansion of hepatitis B treatment guidelines Chronic hepatitis B treatment relies on nucleoside or nucleotide analogue drugs that suppress hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication, normalise liver enzymes, and slow disease progression with excellent ...

Check it out👇

“Scientific & medical evidence informing expansion of #HepatitisB treatment guidelines”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#WorldHepatitisDay
#NOhep #LetsBreakItDown
@pippa-matt.bsky.social @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social @lizhighleyman.bsky.social @microbetv.bsky.social