OVERVIEW

Viral Hepatitis Elimination 2022 is organized by European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and will be held from Feb 24 - 25, 2022 at Hotel Le Plaza Brussels, Brussels, Brussels (73333), United States of America.

Target audience:
The event will be invaluable to physicians and public health workers who are involved in the management of viral hepatitis. Other specialists, healthcare practitioners, and policymakers will benefit from attending, as will virologists and those involved in developing and deploying testing reagents and programmes. Patient organisations are key participants in the programme and patient support services from around the world will derive much useful information from the event.

Description:
The conference will bring together world experts, from the World Health Organization and from countries with advanced hepatitis elimination programmes, to explore measures to mitigate this global health challenge. Speakers will describe methods with which to assess the burden of viral liver disease. The comparison of approaches based on modelling or direct measurement will provide delegates with a range of solutions to apply or adapt to their own programmes. The need for continuing surveillance for liver disease in those patients who have eliminated their viruses will be discussed. Delegates will also learn from debates on recommendations for longterm follow-up.

In recent years, efforts to eliminate hepatitis B and D have been overshadowed by impressive developments in therapeutics for hepatitis C. This event will restore the balance, by providing guidance from experts on approaches to immunisation and on the management of these challenging infections. The major burden of hepatitis B and D lies in the developing world, and experts will discuss and describe different approaches to improving access to care among those populations most at risk.

In our data-rich world, the management of information about patients with diseases associated with considerable stigma needs to be handled with great care. This event will catalyse discussion about these issues and will outline approaches that to facilitate the necessary compromises – between personal data security and data required for national elimination planning – that need to be reached.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.