Overview of preliminary Hep-CORE data Topic 1: Written national HBV and/or HCV strategies Survey respondents representing 23 countries answered a question about written national HBV and/or HCV strategies. Respondents indicated that 14 countries have written national hepatitis strategies and nine do not. Respondents from some of the countries without strategies commented that their governments were in the process of developing strategies. Among the 14 countries with strategies, 79% were reported to have strategies that refer to both HBV and HCV, and most strategies are exclusively for viral hepatitis. Is the strategy Does your country Is there an action exclusively for viral Which best have a written plan stating how hepatitis, or does it describes the national HBV the strategy will be integrate viral content of the and/or HCV implemented? hepatitis with other strategy? strategy? diseases? Austria No Integrates viral It includes HCV but Belgium Yes Yes hepatitis with other not HBV diseases Bosnia and No Herzegovina Exclusively viral It includes both HBV Bulgaria Yes No hepatitis and HCV Croatia No Exclusively viral It includes both HBV Egypt Yes Yes hepatitis and HCV Finland No Integrates viral It includes both HBV Germany Yes Yes hepatitis with other and HCV diseases Greece No Hungary No Integrates viral It includes both HBV Israel Yes Yes hepatitis with other and HCV diseases Exclusively viral It includes both HBV Italy Yes Yes hepatitis and HCV Macedonia No Exclusively viral It includes both HBV Netherlands Yes No hepatitis and HCV Exclusively viral It includes both HBV Romania Yes No hepatitis and HCV Serbia No Exclusively viral It includes both HBV Slovakia Yes Yes hepatitis and HCV
Overview of preliminary Hep-CORE data Topic 1: Written national HBV and/or HCV strategies Survey respondents representing 23 countries answered a question about written national HBV and/or HCV strategies. Respondents indicated that 14 countries have written national hepatitis strategies and nine do not. Respondents from some of the countries without strategies commented that their governments were in the process of developing strategies. Among the 14 countries with strategies, 79% were reported to have strategies that refer to both HBV and HCV, and most strategies are exclusively for viral hepatitis. Does your country have a written national HBV and/or HCV strategy? Is there an action plan stating how the strategy will be implemented? Is the strategy exclusively for viral hepatitis, or does it integrate viral hepatitis with other diseases? Which best describes the content of the strategy? Austria No Belgium Yes Yes Integrates viral hepatitis with other diseases It includes HCV but not HBV Bosnia and Herzegovina No Bulgaria Yes No Exclusively viral hepatitis It includes both HBV and HCV Croatia No Egypt Yes Yes Exclusively viral hepatitis It includes both HBV and HCV Finland No Germany Yes Yes Integrates viral hepatitis with other diseases It includes both HBV and HCV Greece No Hungary No Israel Yes Yes Integrates viral hepatitis with other diseases It includes both HBV and HCV Italy Yes Yes Exclusively viral hepatitis It includes both HBV and HCV Macedonia No Netherlands Yes No Exclusively viral hepatitis It includes both HBV and HCV Romania Yes No Exclusively viral hepatitis It includes both HBV and HCV Serbia No Slovakia Yes Yes Exclusively viral hepatitis It includes both HBV and HCV
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