These factsheets provides some useful statistics and information for World Hepatitis Day 2023 communications. We encourage you to use this information and share it with your networks. This is an opportunity to step up local, national and international efforts for people affected by viral hepatitis.

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Australia is one of 194 World Health Assembly Member States who voted unanimously to eliminate hepatitis B and hepatitis C (viral hepatitis) as public health concerns by 2030. Australia has enshrined this commitment in the National Hepatitis B Strategy, the National Hepatitis C Strategy* and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander BBV/STI Strategy 2023-2030**. These new national strategies span from 2023-2030 and are nearing finalisation which needs to include endorsement by all Australian Health Ministers, public release and implementation funding.

We are at a crucial stage in the elimination of viral hepatitis — there is a cure for hepatitis C and a vaccine and effective treatments for hepatitis B — but the statistics in this factsheet show that many people are still missing out.

All Australian governments have committed to eliminating hepatitis B and hepatitis C by 2030 — viral hepatitis elimination is achievable and cost-effective.

With an estimated 335,000 people in Australia living with hepatitis B or hepatitis C, Australia can’t wait to eliminate viral hepatitis!