Challenges and opportunities in combating viral hepatitis in India: insights from the Indian Hepatitis Summit 2025.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The world has committed to ending viral hepatitis as a public health threat as part of sustainable development goal 3.3. World Health Organization (WHO) has developed Global Health Sector Strategies (GHSS 2022-2030) to provide guidance to countries to end viral hepatitis by 2030. India instituted the national program for prevention and control of viral hepatitis (National Viral Hepatitis Control Program, NVHCP) in 2018 in alignment with the global perspective and strategic framework. The Chennai Liver Foundation conducted the first Indian Hepatitis Summit 2025 as a collective movement towards a hepatitis-free India.

Methods

The summit was conducted on January 17-18, 2025, at Chennai. Healthcare professionals, policymakers, advocates, researchers, and civil society

SUBMITTER: Shanmugam V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853636 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature