2023-10-10 16:00:00
The opening ceremony of the workshop was chaired by the acting chief of staff of the Minister in charge of Health, Dr Antoine Ludovic Gnekoumou Libaba. Until October 11, participants will, through workshops led by experts in the field, propose clear and precise annotations on the document, and make useful amendments to improve the quality of the final document.
The objective is to make the necessary recommendations for its implementation.
For the acting chief of staff of the Minister in charge of Health, although care and therapeutic support services are available in the various public and private hospital structures, these services are often inaccessible to the community and certain groups of people. population at risk.
“In accordance with the global objectives on the elimination of viral hepatitis by 2030 and recognizing the need to intensify interventions in the fight once morest viral hepatitis, this Strategic Plan describes the national priorities in the fight once morest viral hepatitis . Its implementation requires sustainable and sufficient investment with effective coordination at all levels and involvement of all stakeholders. ”, said Dr. Antoine Ludovic Gnekoumou Libaba.
The delegate of the WHO representative in Congo, Dr Cyr Judicaël Passi Louamba, recalled that the global strategy for the fight once morest hepatitis proposed by the WHO during the 63rd World Assembly and approved by Member States has the vision of ” reduce new hepatitis virus infections by 90% and deaths from this disease by 65% by 2030 “. It also emphasizes that programs to combat these conditions should not only be established in a global and systematic manner in national health plans (PNDS) but also documented and provided with appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems.
It is appropriate to say that viral hepatitis is a deadly infection that poses major public health problems. According to the WHO, in 2022, nearly 354 million people will be infected with viral hepatitis, including 294 million with hepatitis B and 58 million with hepatitis C and 2 million with the rest of the hepatitis. Every year, around 1.4 million people die from hepatic cirrhosis or liver cancer. In the African region, hepatitis B is endemic and affects approximately 5 to 8% of the population, especially in West and Central Africa. In Congo, as in most low- and middle-income countries, the majority of infected people are unaware of their serological status, especially key populations who present an increased risk of contamination (…).
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