More people die from viral hepatitis than from HIV, yet the public health response is lacking. The ACHIEVE Coalition urges governments in Europe and elsewhere to improve hepatitis B and hepatitis C monitoring so that a reliable evidence base will be available to guide the drive towards disease elimination.
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The ACHIEVE Coalition is enabled by the support of Abbott, Cepheid, Gilead Sciences and MSD. None of the authors received funding for their work on this Comment.
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Lazarus, J., Safreed-Harmon, K., Colombo, M. et al. Many European countries 'flying blind' in their efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 14, 445–446 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2017.98
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