Full Webinar Recording | 2024 Update on CHD: from Disease Awareness to Therapeutic Opportunities

2024 Update on Chronic Hepatitis D: from Disease Awareness to Therapeutic Opportunities [Co-hosted with ICE-HBV]
The Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and ICE-HBV hosted a webinar on July 18th to review the latest guidance, data, and testing and treatment context for hepatitis D (HDV). This webinar highlighted implications from the recently updated World Health Organization HBV guidelines for HDV management. Speakers presented the HDV testing landscape, the status of screening policies, current treatment options, and challenges of treatment accessibility. This webinar is the third collaboration between ICE-HBV and the Coalition with the aim to bring awareness to the global burden of HDV and the needed research, policy, and implementation to expand access to HDV care.
Agenda:
Welcome and Introductions | Chairs: Maura Dandri, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany; Massimo Levrero, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France; John Ward, Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination
Presentation 1 | HDV global burden and care cascade: the WHO perspective | Niklas Luhmann, World Health Organization
Presentation 2 | Challenges in HDV diagnosis | Elisabetta Degasperi, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy
Presentation 3 | The evolving landscape of HDV / CHD treatment: from discovery to access to care | Heiner Wedemeyer, Hanover Medical School, Germany
Roundtable discussion with the contributions of:
- Naranjargal Dashdorj, Onom Foundation, Mongolia
- Pietro Lampertico, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and University of Milan, Italy
- Richard Njouom, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Institut Pasteur, Cameroon
- Fabien Zoulim, University of Lyon, France