The Challenge of Hepatitis C in Central and South Eastern Europe: Who is at risk and how can patients gain access to effective screening, diagnosis and treatment?
Hosted by
Dr Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI MEP, Dr Biljana Borzan MEP
and Dr Andrey Kovatchev MEP
Organised by
the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL),
the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA),
and the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
EASTERN EUROPE STILL IN THE FOG: Some Eastern European countries still don’t really know how many of their citizens have hepatitis C, according to an event on the topic organized by the Romanian EPP MEP Cristian Bușoi and the European Public Health Alliance. Bulgaria’s latest data from 2000 showed a prevalence of just 1.2 percent in the country of 7 million people, compared with around 2.35 percent worldwide.
‘Good price?’ The good news is that Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Lithuania have started treating patients, with some 6,000 people having received treatment in Poland and Romania last year. “In 2017, the medium cost for treating one patient is around €11,000, so it’s really a good price,” said Jerzy Jaroszewicz from the Medical University of Silesia in Poland, to some raised eyebrows in the room among those didn’t think it was such a good price. Romania secured a deal with Gilead for Harvoni for this year, said Health State Secretary Corina Silvia Pop, and negotiations for other hep C drugs are still going on with AbbVie and MSD. Her ministry is aiming to treat some 10,000 patients this year, doubling the number from last year.
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The 2016 ELPA Hep-Core Report: Monitoring the Implementation of Hepatitis B and C Policy Recommendations in Europe
European Liver Patients Association
Risk and Prevention of Drug-related infections in the Baltic and South Eastern EU Member States – focus on HCV
Dagmar Hedrich EMCDDA
The EASL HCV Treatment Guidelines: Who Should be treated and when
Helena Cortez-Pinto EASL EU Councillor
HCV Romanian Framework
Prof Adrian Streinu-Cercel MD PhD HC
Are Patients Getting the Treatment They Need in Poland
Dr hab.med. Jerzy Jaroszewicz, Vice-President of the Polish Society for the Study of the Liver
The Challenge of Hepatitis C in Central and South Eastern Europe: Who is at Risk and How Can Patients Gain Access to Effective Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment?
Marieta Simonova MD
The Burden of Hepatitis C in Lithuania and the Gaps in Screening and Treatment: Development of Lithuanian National Hepatitis C Strategy
Prof Ligita Jančorienė MD PhD
Hepatitis C Disease Burden and Strategies to Minimize its Consequences in the Future: Assumptions and Outputs for Romania
Dr Corina Pop
Hepatitis C: Policy in Action
Ricado Baptista Leite MP MD PhD(C)
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