In anticipation of the upcoming 4th Annual Canadian Viral Hepatitis Elimination Day, Action Hepatitis Canada (AHC) was joined by CanHepC, CanHepC, the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), and Liver Canada in Toronto, Ontario to publicly launch the most recent Progress Report.
2025 Report: Progress Toward Viral Hepatitis Elimination in Canada
Dating back to 2016, World Health Organization (WHO) issued the first Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis with a goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Canada was one of 194 countries that committed to support this global goal.
While the federal government is supportive of the global goal, it has been made clear that provinces and territories will be accountable to meet these targets. AHC prepares a Progress Report detailing how each province and territory is progressing toward eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat.
AHC’s 2025 Progress Report there are six metrics considered based on available data across Canada as well as the centrality of the target to the overall the elimination goals; Metric 1: Decrease in new cases of HBV and HCV, Metric 2: Elimination plan or strategy in place, Metric 3: Testing for HBV, HCV, and HDV, Metric 4: Access to HCV and HBV treatment following diagnosis, Metric 5: Annual HCV treatment prescribing counts, and Metric 6: Prevention measures.
Read the full progress report here.
BC Action on Viral Hepatitis
Beginning with the release Healthy Pathways Forward: A Strategic Integrated Approach to Viral Hepatitis in British Columbia in 2007 to serve as a provincial blueprint to complement, guide and support community and health authority efforts to address viral hepatitis in BC, developed by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the BCCDC, regional health authorities, community partners, clinicians, and people with lived and living experience of viral hepatitis. In 2010, the Healthy Pathways Forward Progress Report was released to serve as an update of the progress the province had made in meeting the four goals discussed in the original Healthy Pathways Forward.
Dating back to 2016, the Ministry of Health began a process to refresh its strategic policy related to viral hepatitis by participating in the development of BC’s Roadmap to Eliminate Viral Hepatitis as a Public Health Threat. PAN has been working alongside the BCCDC, community-based organizations, academics, researchers, and others to prepare the BC Roadmap that we look forward to publicly launching later this spring.
You can follow along online with the hashtags #CanHepDay25 or #HepCantWait
Questions? Comments? Contact Jennifer Demchuk, Co-Director of Capacity Building Initiatives: jennifer @ paninbc.ca