#IDUD21: International Drug Users’ Day 2021

Every year on 1st November, among many organisations, C-EHRN celebrates International Drug Users’ Day by showing solidarity within the harm reduction world, aiming to raise awareness about the importance of community-led harm reduction and peer involvement and advocate for the rights of people who use drugs.

Alongside other vital initiatives, this year, there are two campaigns to which we would like to draw your attention. 

INPUD campaign: #PowerOfPeers 
As Aditio Taslim, the INPUD Advocacy Officer, states, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with more proof that in times of crisis, the community responds first by extending solidarity and supporting each other through challenging times. Nevertheless, still, they are the ones that are under-funded, under-invested and excluded.

The #PowerOfPeers campaign messages boldly highlight:

By joining the Campaign, you can help add bricks to the goal to end the War on Drugs with full decriminalisation of drugs with no sanctions.

Check here for the INPUD campaign toolkit to get inspired and, accordingly, to inspire others.

UNAIDS Call-to-action
On this very day, you can also answer the call by UNAIDS for action against the criminalisation of people who use drugs and for community-led harm reduction programmes. Their call aims to end inequalities and AIDS by fully involving communities of people who use drugs to achieve legal reform aimed at decriminalisation and in the organisation of harm reduction programmes at the country level.

Lastly, as you might be well aware, the 5th European Harm Reduction Conference will occur next week between 10-12 November in Prague. The programme includes extensive highlights which are co-organised by representatives of people who use drugs and peer-led networks. 

Below are only a couple of the sessions that will touch the groundwork and offer plenty of discussions and knowledge exchange: 

  1. Workshop 3 | C-EHRN & EuroNPUD: A starters kit for testing in the community by the community
  2. Satellite II | UNODC HIV/AIDS Section – HIV prevention, treatment and care among & with people who use stimulant drugs
  3. Plenary Opening Session | Drug policy and harm reduction embedded into the broader development of societies in Europe
  4. Major Session 1 | Drug policy decriminalisation
  5. Major Session 4 | Key issues during the pandemic: naloxone and overdoses
  6. Parallel Session 2 | Peer-led Harm Reduction
  7. Parallel Session 3 | Girls Power in HR2
  8. Parallel Session 7 | Supporting person-centred choice
  9. Parallel Session 8 | NPS and mental health
  10. Parallel Session 10 | Objects or Subjects?
  11. Major Session 5 | Peer work and research

Did you know that there will also be live-streaming sessions?
Check out their list and register here if your calendar can be shifted to open room for those you fancy following!

Zachte Landing Project: More than a return ticket and a farewell

We talked to Ewa Wielgat about the “Zachte Landing” Project and the T6 shelter, funded by the City of Amsterdam. Ewa is one of the social workers at AMOC, a drop-in centre managed by De Regenboog Groep.

T6 is a 24/7 shelter for people experiencing homelessness, some of whom are EU migrants. In the T6 shelter, clients can stay up to one year, which allows them to stabilise, recover from the stressful life on the streets and get themselves organised. Later, “Zachte Landing” completes the cycle by assisting EU migrants, without legal documents, insurance and work, with a safe and trustful passage to life in their home country if they are willing to return.

Their many clients deal with a broad range of problems (e.g. (mental) health problems, homelessness, extensive drug or alcohol use, lack of social contacts in the home country). Therefore, they need on-site support services, including medical or drug treatment, housing, mental health services and work integration.

Current Project partners are situated in Poland and Romania, as most of the clients at AMOC come from these countries. Ewa and her colleague are case managers, assisting the clients in their language. In addition, the case managers develop different steps and support services in cooperation with their partners in the respective countries.
Ewa says that they have already supported the return of several clients to their home country. They stay in contact and follow up on their development from here.

“Zachte Landing” builds on the idea that people can take responsibility for their lives. However, it also acknowledges the need for a stable and safe environment (e.g. housing, treatment) to motivate the clients in their decision-making.
The service provided by “Zachte Landing” certainly is more than buying a return ticket and sending clients to the unknown but guaranteeing them an assuring start and with care, support and empathy, boosting their confidence to try.
Although the project will end soon, Ewa is optimistic. The preliminary results of the project are promising. The integrated harm reduction approach works are empowering and show the positive impact of a stable and safe environment for the well-being of individuals and the recovery of people in vulnerable situations.

Projects such as “Zachte Landing” put the individual in the centre and treat them with respect and dignity. Something which everyone deserves. We hope to hear more about such projects and initiatives.

Please feel free to contact C-EHRN with your news.
We would happily support your efforts at our best.

LAUNCHED TODAY! Harm Reduction Key Principles in Homeless Services

 

We are delightfully exhilarated to present you with this exciting must-read publication, Harm Reduction Key Principles in Homeless Services. Special thanks to all our partners, FEANTSA, De Regenboog Groep, Simon Community, Rights Reporter Foundation, Sundheds Team and Norte Vida.

The Key Principles
The Key Principles of Harm Reduction are an innovative set of tools developed through the HR4Homelessness Project. The innovation lies in their capacity to translate existing experiences and knowledge on Harm Reduction into actionable guidance through an open, iterative and evolving framework. 

The Key Principles aim to contribute to improving and transforming the services that shape access to and the quality of care that people experiencing homelessness who use drugs or alcohol receive. Further, they aim to support these services to respond to conditions that negatively influence marginalised and underserved communities’ social and health outcomes.

 

Why Harm Reduction? Why now?
Currently, a substantial number of programmes that support people experiencing homelessness in Europe require ongoing abstinence in order to receive or to access support services, including permanent housing. At the same time, a significant number of services currently articulate other conditions that, in combination with an abstinence requirement, result in high-threshold access to care and support and difficulties in generating engagement with people who use drugs or alcohol. 

High-threshold models come with the risk of implementing a “one size fits all” model that does not respond to the complex realities and diverse experiences of people experiencing homelessness who use drugs or alcohol. Instead, high-threshold services articulate structures wherein those most in need of help are least able to access it and where services end up supporting individuals who can demonstrate the capacity for change prior to the conditions and support required to achieve such change. Such an approach is often experienced as shaming or stigmatising and acts as a barrier to building trust between individuals and services. 

While evidence for the effectiveness of Harm Reduction exists, and a growing number of services in Europe, including homeless services, have started implementing Harm Reduction approaches as a guiding model in recent years, a substantial number of homeless services in Europe still lack the capacity to implement such strategies effectively. Next to this, mainstream Harm Reduction services that can implement Harm Reduction strategies and approaches generally focus too narrowly on technological or behavioural interventions centring upon personal change and not on systemic change. 

In response, the Key Principles of Harm Reduction in Homeless Services aims to support service providers to implement activities that respect the rights of people experiencing homelessness who use drugs or alcohol, which are informed by evidence. It also intends to advance social justice transformations, respect service user decisions and priorities, and contribute to eliminating stigma and discrimination of the communities they work for and with.

For more information about this resource or the HR4Homeless Project, please contact rpgayo@correlation-net.org

 

World Mental Health Day

Every year on 10th October, World Mental Health Day is celebrated to raise awareness and draw attention to this highly impactful condition. For the last 29 years, World Health Organisation has been setting the campaign focus of the Day, which is this year “Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality.”

While affecting the mental state of many people vigorously, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown clearly how unequal the health systems function in many countries. The inequalities due to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, and the lack of respect for human rights, came to the surface in 2020.

According to statistics, between 75% to 95% of people with mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries cannot access mental health services at all, and access in high-income countries is not much better either. Moreover, the numbers get even lower for vulnerable, marginalised communities, including people who use drugs, due to stigmatisation, discrimination, and human rights abuses.

Within the general context of the EU Health Policy Platform, the European Commission launched this year’s EU Health Award on two topics, one of which is Mental health. They claim to reward community-based initiatives alleviating the mental health impact of COVID-19.

This year, the Platform aims to gather good practices from cities and local authorities, NGOs, other non-profit organisations, and educational institutions.

Check out the Award page for more information and apply with your work.
Please remember to also support the Mental Health Day 2021 campaign by joining their live conversations with experts and influencers while sharing your initiatives online with the hashtag #WorldMentalHealthDay.

Further information on World Mental Health Day:

URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED! – Romanian Hospitals Lack Anti-Retroviral Medicines

Urgent Request for Support | For far too long, vital medicines for the health of people living with HIV have been missing from Romanian hospitals.  The Ministry of Health has finally promised a solution to this situation by the end of October; in the meantime, patients are forced to seek support from NGOs and the international community.

As a result of a lack of funds allocated to HIV medication by the Ministry of Health, and a budget rectification postponed for too long, hospitals have been unable to purchase vital medication. Since August, several hospitals in Romania have faced a lack, or complete absence, of HIV medication. In Bucharest, two of the largest hospitals have been forced to give anti-retroviral treatment (ART) medication for only a week, instead of a month, due to low stocks. Other hospitals in the country are also completely out of drugs, and this has an extremely negative impact on those living with HIV.

 


Hospitals marked in red have been reported by patients living with HIV has having shortages of ART drugs.
Those in yellow have been reported at least once. Source: Tratament ARV, 22nd  of September, 2021.

On 13 August, 2021, members of the LGBTQI community, as well as organizations in the field of drug use and HIV/AIDS, participated in a protest in front of the Ministry of Health. After an ad-hoc meeting, the Health Minister, Ioana Mihaila, compromised by adopting a Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS by the end of October.

Despite these promises, the community of people living with HIV in Romania is experiencing an urgent need of support. The current situation endangers the lives of people living with HIV. ART drugs keep people alive and well. Those who start drug treatment, however, have to stay on the drugs; if they don’t, the virus in their body evolves into a drug-resistant strain, putting them at further risk of not being able to use their personalized treatment scheme. As a result, patients must be re-evaluated, other (and often more expensive) drugs may be necessary, and they face the additional risk of their bodies not accepting the new treatment.

Contrary to the trend across Europe, Romania, particularly its capital, Bucharest, has seen a drastic increase in HIV infection rates in the last decade.  This is fuelled by the use of synthetic drugs and the lack of adequate harm reduction services.

 

Absence of drugs, an endemic situation in Romania
This is not a new situation; limited access to treatment, reduced stocks or absence of medicines is a recurrent problem for people living with HIV in Romania.  In the absence of a national program that can cover the costs of HIV treatment throughout the year, the authorities offer improvised solutions, and hospitals have become accustomed to borrowing drugs from each other when they are gone. Tratament ART, the national platform for monitoring access of people living with HIV in Romania to medicines, has been reporting on similar cases in hospitals for some time. Alongside this, the EU HIV/HCV/TB Civil Society Forum and different local NGOs have been urging the Romanian government for more than a decade to take steps to ensure sufficient drug supply.

Support for the community left without medication
Ana Mohr, representative of MozaiQ, points out that the LGTBQI community is among the hardest affected, and that people living with HIV are facing a more pressing situation by the day.  Within this context, national and international NGOs in Romania are urgently collecting medicines from international donations, other NGOs, doctors, and activists from all over Europe.

Currently, there is a high need for the following drugs: Lamivudine/ Abracavir (Kivexa), Tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada), Reyataz, Genvoya, Dovato, Tivicay, Triumeq, Lamivudine/emtricitabine, Lamivudine/zidovudine (Combivir), Dolutegravir, Efavirenz

If you, your colleagues or contacts, have access to one or more of the above drugs and can share them, MozaiQ will be very grateful.  You can send them to their office for further distribution.

More information:
https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/de-ce-au-ramas-spitalele-din-romania-cu-un-stoc-redus-de-medicamente-pentru-pacienii-hiv-3732218
https://romania.europalibera.org/a/romania-hiv-lipsa-medicamente/31444527.html

Contact:
mozaiqlgbt@gmail.com

 

Developing a new Strategy for 2021-2025

Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network is excited to invite you to join us in our upcoming Harm Reduction Labs. Currently, the Network is developing a new Strategy for 2021-2025 through a process that includes all stakeholders in the Harm Reduction movement.

Running alongside the preparations for the upcoming European Harm Reduction Conference 2021, the Harm Reduction Labs will offer the possibility of exploring collective solutions and imagining what harm reduction can be. In addition to analysing current themes and approaches within the harm reduction movement, each Lab will offer space to come together and identify common and urgent future questions that address broader topics of social justice, bodily autonomy, and care, among others.

Programme:
HR Lab #1 | Sex Work, Migration and Homelessness [30 September, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #2 | Gender Identities, Gender Expressions and Sex Characteristics [7 October, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #3 | Funding & Sustainability [14 October, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #4 | Digital Transformation & Online Spaces [21 October, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #5 | Youth & Recreational Settings [28 October, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #6 | Stimulants [4 November, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #7 | Community-Led Research [2 December, 15h – 16:30h]
HR Lab #8 | Care & Pleasure [9 December, 15h – 16:30h]

From your point of view, what is urgent for the harm reduction movement to consider in the coming period?

Please, register now to any of the Labs to share your thoughts with us.
If you have any questions, you may also contact Roberto Perez Gayo at rpgayo@correlation-net.org

Sex Worker Pride Day | Welcome ESWA!

Today, 14 September 2021, is SEX WORKER PRIDE DAY, honouring sex workers’ self-determination and enhanced visibility and the achievements of sex worker-led organisations. Sex Worker Pride extends to all marginalised by criminalisation, discrimination, and stigma across the sex worker movement and celebrates the diversity within the community.

On this day, we would like to share and amplify some important announcements in the sex workers’ rights movement and offer you some simple steps to support the inclusion of sex workers. 

Thank you, ICRSE, for your work. Time to let ESWA take over!

 

From today, ICRSE becomes ESWA, the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA), a sex worker-led network representing over 100 organisations led by or working with sex workers in 35 countries in Europe and Central Asia.

To celebrate this significant moment, ESWA is launching their new website. However, this is not all! Building upon previous years of substantial, urgent and successful work, ESWA is also presenting their Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025, setting two main thematic priorities: gender and migration & anti-racism.

On this day, we also would like to celebrate Sabrina Sanchez as the new coordinator of ESWA. Sabrina is a trans woman, sex worker, originally from Mexico, co-founder of the sex worker’s union OTRAS in Spain. Previously, Sabrina was also a Convenor of the Board of Directors of ICRSE.

Welcome ESWA!
C-EHRN is already looking forward to continuing working together with you!

 

4 SIMPLE STEPS TO SUPPORT THE INCLUSION OF SEX WORKERS

ESWA needs our help in advocating for the rights of sex workers in Europe and ensuring that their voices are heard! What can we do? Check out all these actions on their new website, and have a read of the tips below.

Educate yourself
Sex workers’ rights are workers’ rights!
Sex workers’ rights are the rights of women, migrants, LGBTQ, and people who use drugs!

We want to invite you to read more about sex work, human rights violations, and their legal frameworks on this- and upcoming days. There are a lot of resources out there!

NSWP and INPUD briefing paper is a good start, for example. Remember also to check Intersection Papers and Toolkit developed by ESWA, or the collection of texts ‘The Fight To Decriminalise Sex’ by Open Democracy. Another fantastic resource is Revolting Prostitutes by Juno Mac & Molly Smith.

Connect with your local or national sex worker organisations
Regular conversations, partnerships and cooperation with sex workers organisations is another way to stand in solidarity. Advocating for the rights of sex workers to other groups is not an easy task, so reach out and ask them how you can support their work. Find a list of sex workers’ organisations in Europe with whom you may establish mutual learning and knowledge sharing links. 

Include sex workers in your programmes or activities
Peer works! For people who use drugs, and also for sex workers, from research to community-building activities and outreach activities or programme evaluation. Having dedicated human and financial resources available for capacity building of drug users and sex-workers led activities and networks makes the difference between aspirations and reaching those most marginalised and underserved. 

Golden tip! Check out the Training Manual on Sex Work, HIV and Human Rights.

Advocate for sex workers’ rights
The sex workers and people who use drugs’ rights movement are both part of broader social justice transformation processes. Criminalisation, stigma, discrimination and violence severely impact the health and wellbeing of sex workers and people who use drugs across Europe. 

The first step for a more inclusive Harm Reduction movement is a clear and explicit position on the decriminalisation of sex work. You may read about the Sex Work Frameworks by ESWA or the community guide on decriminalisation by NSWP. Also, consider signing ESWA’s campaign to amend the Sexual Freedom Law in Spain or the petition asking the Croatian government to decriminalise sex work.

On this day, we invite Harm Reduction activists to stand with us by sex workers’ side and vocally support them – from social media to EU Institutions – towards social justice for all.   

International Overdose Awareness Day 2021

Today, 31 August, is the annual International Overdose Awareness Day, which aims to raise awareness of one of the world’s worst public health crises and commemorate those lost to a drug overdose. The key message – that the tragedy of overdose death is preventable and more must be done to save lives – is at the very heart of C-EHRN’s aims.

What we know
In May 2021, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) published an update to its technical report ‘Drug-related deaths and mortality in Europe‘.

According to the report, in 2018, over 8,300 deaths involving one or more illicit drugs were reported in the European Union, rising to over 9,200 when Turkey and Norway were included. Multiple drug toxicity is implicated in most cases, with opioids being the most common cause of fatal overdoses; cocaine has been involved in an increasing number of overdoses, frequently combined with heroin or other opioids.

C-EHRN publishes an annual monitoring report on civil society-led harm reduction activities across Europe, produced with the support and input from its vast network of focal points. The 2020 report compiles responses from focal points around the conditions and characteristics of drug overdoses. Some of the most frequent characteristics were:

● Experiencing homelessness
● Using drugs alone
● Engaging in polydrug-use
● Not calling for emergency help for fear of the police
● Not having access to naloxone

Addressing the issues
The findings in the monitoring report help to shape the activities and priorities of C-EHRN and its members. The following examples demonstrate some of the overdose prevention work currently in place:

Amplifying the voices of people who use drugs
“Nothing about us without us”.  EuroNPUD – the European Network of People who Use Drugs – supports the growth and development of drug user networking and advocacy across the European Union and represents the interests of people who use drugs to European institutions.

In 2020 EuroNPUD worked with their UK partners to undertake a peer designed and delivered naloxone access and advocacy project to coincide with International Overdose Awareness Day. The project’s focus was to highlight the role of naloxone in responding to opioid overdose, describe the existing response and barriers to accessing naloxone in the UK, and advocate for expanded peer-to-peer access. 

It included peer-led focus groups, mystery shopping exercises around naloxone accessibility, advocacy briefings on the findings, next steps, and the benefits of peer2peer naloxone distribution, all held with local service delivery partners and peers. 

Naloxone Click and Deliver Service
Scotland currently has the highest drug-induced mortality rate in Europe. Provided by Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs, with the support of the Scottish Drugs Forum, this Service supplies a take-home naloxone service to anyone over 16.
Naloxone can reverse the effects of opioid overdoses almost immediately and lasts long enough for the person to receive medical treatment.

Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs)
A mobile DCR was launched in Lisbon in 2019, co-managed by Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos and Médicos do Mundo. The facility aims to contribute to the health, safety and quality of life of people who inject drugs by providing access to safer injecting consumption conditions and preventing the risks and harm associated with injecting.

May 2021 saw the opening of Lisbon’s first fixed DCR, located in a part of the city with intense drug trafficking and high drug use in public spaces. While Ares Do Pinhal manages the DCR, the people who use the service are also involved in its daily operation.

Alongside providing a safer space, both facilities also offer education for safer consumption; distribution of consumables such as syringes; provision of primary health care; peer and psychosocial support; and rapid testing for HIV, Hepatitis B and C, as well as syphilis.

 

Further information
● Go to the official International Overdose Awareness Day website
● Read C-EHRN briefing papers on overdose prevention:
       o  Part 1: Status Quo and Challenges
       o  Part 2: New Technology-Based Solutions
● Read C-EHRN Chapter on Overdose Prevention in the Monitoring Report 2020 
● View other publications on overdose prevention in the C-EHRN Resource centre
● Interested in becoming a part of our monitoring activity? Contact us or the focal point in your country
● Become a C-EHRN member

The Dutch Multiplier Event on HR4Homelessness

On the 29th of July, De Regenboog Groep / C-EHRN hosted the webinar “Improving Harm Reduction Services for People Who use Substances in the situation of Homelessness”. This webinar is part of the Eramus+ project “HR4Homelessness”.

With 40 registered participants, the event brought together professionals working in homelessness and drug use to exchange experiences about their harm reduction programmes, the challenges they face, the successes, and to get acknowledged with the outcomes of the HR4Homeless project.

Roberto Perez Gayo, policy officer at C-EHRN, presented the overall aim and specific objectives of the project and the contribution of the activities and outputs. Specifically, the event offered the participants the possibility of getting acquittanced with two critical project outcomes. On the one hand, attention was given to the Harm Reduction Key Principles and how they can help homeless services improving harm reduction provision for people who use drugs. On the other, to the outcomes of the EU-wide survey on harm reduction service provision that project developed. Ruth Kasper, HR4Homelessness project coordinator, presented data regarding current HR provision for people experiencing homelessness and the synthesis of drug/alcohol use among people in situations of homelessness and their access to support services in the partner countries.

The project and outcomes presentation was followed by three projects that put forward the diversity of approaches to harm reduction and recent development they work to respond to. First, Vivienne Blommendaal and Frank van Milt, caseworkers at the Centre of Expertise Housing First HVO Querido, shared with participants the relationship between Housing First and Harm Reduction models. Both Vivienne and Frank provided insights into how HR works within their project and some of the practical implications for adequate support of people who use drugs in Housing First programmes. Next, Ingrid Bakker – projects officer at MAINline – presented ‘Omgaan met Verward Gedrag”, a recent project that seeks to increase the capacity of low-threshold facilities & their staff to respond to neural diversity. In recent years the Netherlands has experienced a rise in homelessness, while at the same time problems in capacity on shelters and mental health facilities. Already for a while, MAINline was receiving signals from shelters themselves that they were working with people with more complex needs of support – substance dependence, mental health, homelessness, among others -, and that their capacity to respond adequately to it was limited. In response to this situation, “Omgaan met Verward Gedrag” has developed a manual and a training programme to build the capacity of service providers in the field of homelessness. After this, Sonja Groot – De Regenboog / Amsterdam Undeground – presented the community-led projects she works on: a tour guiding company that operates as a community-led cooperative. Amsterdam Undeground functions not only as a labour integration and community building project for and by people who use(d) drugs but also as a platform for advocacy and fighting stigma. Through their own experiences, the guides can give insight into the lives of people who use drugs, people experiencing homelessness or sex workers, among others.

For any further information, please contact Roberto Perez Gayo rpgayo@correlation-net.org

 

#HepatitisCantWait … neither should we

Today is World Hepatitis Day, #WHD21. Every year on 28th July, civil society organisations, among many others, call on people from across the world to take action and raise awareness of hepatitis. This year’s campaign is another valid point, also acclaimed by WHO: #HepatitisCantWait.

With a person dying every 30 seconds from a hepatitis-related illness, people affected by hepatitis cannot wait to end stigma and discrimination especially now that the current #COVID19 crisis negatively affected hepatitis testing and treatment, leaving many more people unaware and unassisted.
How can health inclusion be exempt from agendas, one wonders?

According to our Monitoring Report 2020, persistent stigmatisation and restrictive policies towards drug use are some of the roughest feeders of deprived, vulnerable communities.
How can countries wait for further harmful facts whilst an inclusive continuum of health care guarantees stronger and more equal societies? 

National guidelines for HCV testing and treatment must include people who use drugs (PWUD) as well as people who inject drugs (PWID) and must allow for low threshold and community-based care to positively impact a #HepFreeFuture states the Monitoring Report 2020 Executive Summary.
How can governments wait to trigger more inclusive health regulations?

Our 2019 briefing paper “HCV in People Who Use Drugs: results from civil society monitoring in Europe” concluded that the main barriers to address HCV among PWID include a lack of funding, knowledge, awareness, dedicated health workers, political support in general, as well as weakness of CSOs and legal barriers.
How can the hands of European Health NGOs’ be tied with existential struggles; shouting #BringBackOperatingGrants whilst #EU4HealthNGOs is the obvious path to take?

The ongoing pandemic has proven all healthcare gaps to remain resolutely in place. If we are to #EliminateHepatitis by 2030, we urgently need to focus on community-led and community-based preventions, #HealthInclusion, testing and treatment.

Let us work collectively for a future where hepatitis was a joke of the past.
Visit worldhepatitisday.org and see how you can get involved for such a future.
Because #HepatitisCantWait, neither should we.