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 »
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 »