The World Health Organization's strategic framework for eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat, carrying forward a goal the WHO first set in 2016 and now folded into the wider Global Health Sector Strategy on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections covering 2022 through 2030. The strategy calls on health sectors worldwide to scale up prevention, testing and treatment of viral hepatitis, with particular attention to chronic hepatitis B and C, and it sets concrete milestones toward the 2030 goal, including a target of reducing chronic hepatitis B prevalence among children under five to just 0.1 percent worldwide. Progress toward that target remains uneven: the WHO African Region, at 1.4 percent prevalence in that age group, remains the region furthest from the 2030 goal, illustrating the scale of the gap the strategy is designed to close through expanded vaccination, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and broader access to testing and treatment.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyWorld Health Assembly (World Health Organization) 1 Target PopulationPeople most affected and at risk for each disease (HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs) 1 Health GoalEnding AIDS, viral hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted infections by 2030 1 Geographic Scope Measured ResultsViral hepatitis deaths are rising, not falling (2026 mid-term progress finding) 2 Classification
Program KindVaccination or Immunization Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
Sources
1. WHO Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis 2022-2030 (publication page)
Overview, strategy period
Global health sector strategies on, respectively, HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections for the period 2022-2030
Overview, WHA reporting schedule
The Seventy-Fifth World Health Assembly requested progress reports on the implementation of the strategies in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2031
Overview, target population statement
They call for a precise focus to reach the people most affected and at risk for each disease
Overview, goals statement
guide the health sector in implementing strategically focused responses to achieve the goals of ending AIDS, viral hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted infections by 2030
Program classification, entity description sentence
Progress toward that target remains uneven: the WHO African Region, at 1.4 percent prevalence in that age group, remains the region furthest from the 2030 goal, illustrating the scale of the gap the strategy is designed to close through expanded vaccination, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and broader access to testing and treatment.
View the Source2. WHO Global Health Sector Strategies page
2026 mid-term progress report, key messagesQuote, 2026 mid-term progress report, key messages
Viral hepatitis deaths are rising, not falling.
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