Advancing Global Solidarity to Eliminate Hepatitis.






World Hepatitis Day is observed on 28 July each year. Its purpose is to raise awareness to combat hepatitis and achieve the goals of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the elimination of hepatitis B and hepatitis C as global health threats. The 2025 theme, “Let’s Break It Down”, calls for collective action to break down the remaining barriers to prevention, care and the cure of hepatitis.


Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are often hidden infections; they can exist in the body undetected for years until they cause liver failure or liver cancer, the third leading cause of cancer deaths. As a result, public awareness, political attention and investment remain limited. Yet the numbers demand our urgent attention: worldwide, 305 million people have hepatitis B or hepatitis C, causing 1.3 million deaths per year – exceeding deaths from HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).1

Recognizing this crisis, the United Nations, in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.3, challenged the world to combat hepatitis. In response, the World Health Assembly in 2016 unanimously endorsed the WHO goals for eliminating hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The benefits of hepatitis elimination are substantial: for health, preventing 36 million infections and averting 10 million deaths; for economies, increasing productivity by $145 billion.

Now, nearly ten years since setting these goals, recent global reports reveal both remarkable achievements and persistent barriers in the world’s journey towards hepatitis elimination.








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