Government of Pakistan provides free diagnosis, treatment and care to hepatitis patients in all provinces through four Hepatitis Prevention and Control programmes.
Hepatitis C patients now have free access to new oral medicines, thanks to work done by the National Technical Advisory Group of hepatitis experts, which has been instrumental in bringing down the cost of drugs for hepatitis C treatment to less than 1% of the cost paid in the USA.
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消除肝炎是目标
Eliminatinghepatitis is the goal
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政治支持对于肝炎问题的解决至关重要。
Political support is essential to tackling hepatitis.
“When we demonstrated the seriousness of the situation to the Chief Minister of Punjab – showing him how many people get sick and die from hepatitis here – he took personal interest and pledged full support, including passing new laws to help prevent hepatitis infection,” says Dr Akhter.
In August, Pakistan Ministry of Health will launch its first National Hepatitis Strategic Framework that follows closely WHO’s Global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis.
It outlines a clear set of targets and objectives to help Pakistan work towards the goal of eliminating hepatitis by 2030 so that people like Ali no longer have to risk death from a simple visit to the barber.
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* 非真实姓名
* not his realname
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世卫组织发布新版《国际疾病分类》
WHO releases newInternational Classification of Diseases (ICD 11)