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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 »

Viral Hepatitis and Migration The health of migrants is an important topic – not only in times of war in Europe. Even if chronic infectious diseases may not be the primary concern of migrants who have had to flee from violence, unrest or precarious living conditions to Switzerland, access to care must be ensured. Monday… Read More »

Thursday 28 July is World Hepatitis Day. To this occasion, the SHCV, together with Hepatitis Switzerland, Hepfree.ch and the Arud Centre for Addiction Medicine, is organising anonymous free tests for Hepatitis-C. Come to the Arud Centre at Schützengasse 31 near the HB, 8001 Zurich on Thursday 28th July from 17 to 19 o’clock and get… Read More »

Where do refugees from Ukraine living with HIV and/or Hepatitis get information and supplies? Where can people turn for Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST)? Де біженці з України, які мають ВІЛ та/або гепатит, можуть отримати інформацію та допомогу? Куди звертатися людям, які отримують опіоїдну замісну терапію (ОЗТ)? Где могут получить необходимую информацию и помощь беженцы из… Read More »

Press release Public Health Switzerland and Hepatitis Switzerland Scientists Harvey J. Alter, Charles M. Rice and Michael Houghton were today awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Thanks to their work, the disease is curable today, some 40 years later. Switzerland aims to eliminate the viral disease. Until then, there… Read More »