The Swiss Hepatitis Symposium 2025 will take place on Monday, 8 December 2025, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Welle 7 in Bern. The theme of this year’s symposium is: ‘Viral hepatitis: micro-elimination in people undergoing opioid agonist therapy and substance users’ The symposium will focus on the following topics: – Identifying practical barriers… Read More »
The initiative by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Medicines Agency supports the WHO’s goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. The guide was published ahead of Prisoners’ Day on 10 August and aims to promote hepatitis B and C prevention and treatment in prisons… Read More »
It’s vacation time and hepatitis A is spreading in Eastern Europe. Cases have also been reported in Germany and Austria. Now is the perfect time to check your vaccination status. Vaccination provides reliable protection against hepatitis A for at least 10 years, sometimes even for life. Booster shots are not usually necessary for healthy individuals.… Read More »
Every year, more than one million people die from hepatitis, and the number continues to rise. Only by working together, raising awareness, and testing and treating more people can we get this disease under control. We have everything we need to eliminate hepatitis by 2030—but the world is falling behind! www.worldhepatitisday.org World-Hepatitis-Day at Hepatitis-Switzerland
The SHCA supports Support. Don’t Punish. A campaign calling for drug policies based on health and human rights. June 26, 2025, International Action Day. supportdontpunish.org EuroNPUD campaign 2025
In 1985, Zurich’s cantonal medical officer Prof. Dr. Gonzaug Kistler announced that he would revoke the licenses of doctors who provided sterile syringes to people who injected substances. This ban and the authorities’ attitude toward substance users at the time cost thousands of lives. Many died completely unnecessarily from HIV or hepatitis B and C.… Read More »
A coherent surveillance and response approach is key to effectively implementing elimination programmes. Only if a surveillance system early detects signs of rising cases in vulnerable groups decision-makers can intervene. When? 2 December 2024, 1.00 pm to 6 pm Where? Welle7 Workspace, Eventraum Schanzenstrasse 5, 3008 Bern Link PDF
Support. Don’t Punish 26 June Global Day of Action Support. Don’t Punish is a global advocacy campaign calling for drug policies based on health and human rights supportdontpunish.org
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), far too few hepatitis cases are diagnosed and treated worldwide. As a result, the number of people who died from viral hepatitis rose from 1.1 million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022, according to the UN agency in Geneva on Tuesday. 83 percent of deaths were due… Read More »
This is alarming: more than 40% of hepatitis C sufferers with an opioid addiction in the canton of St. Gallen have not been diagnosed and more than 50% have not been treated. This is despite the fact that the FOPH has had hepatitis C guidelines in place for years, which stipulate annual testing and treatment… Read More »