POC HBsAg testing is transforming access to timely screening—from antenatal care to community + harm reduction settings.

Hear how partners are scaling testing worldwide + what innovations are next.

🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/4h3nfcr8

#HepB #GlobalHealth

Major milestone in 🇬🇲! MRCG at LSHTM is advancing efforts to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis & Hepatitis B.

Proud to see Dr. Gibril Ndow’s leadership highlighted — and CGHE’s continued collaboration to drive triple elimination forward.

Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/uni...

We’re headed to #TheLiverMeeting in Washington, DC (Nov 7–11)!

Join clinicians, researchers, advocates & policymakers advancing the future of hepatitis elimination.

Don’t miss CGHE presentations + come visit us at the exhibit booths!

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Join our webinar on November 19th at 10 A.M. ET to explore the expansion of Hepatitis B testing. Learn from a manufacturer's perspective about developing multiplex tests for HIV, syphilis, and NBV, and the global implementation and scaling of HBsAg testing. Register here: tinyurl.com/4h3nfcr8

This October, let’s take a stand against liver cancer. Learn the signs, support the research, and spread awareness. 💚 #LiverCancerAwarenessMonth #HepatitisElimination

Hepatitis prevention and treatment are critical in the fight to end liver cancer worldwide. This #LiverCancerAwarenessMonth, stay informed and take action toward elimination at globalhep.org🤝

#HepElimination #LiverCancerAwareness

"Africa is ready for action but needs support," says H.E. Amb. Amma A. Twum-Amoah, African Union Commissioner for Health. The UN Group of Friends to Eliminate Hepatitis convenes annually to enhance policies on hepatitis and liver cancer. Read more: www.globalhep.org/webinars-eve...

Join our webinar on November 19th at 10 A.M. ET to explore the expansion of Hepatitis B testing. Learn from a manufacturer's perspective about developing multiplex tests for HIV, syphilis, and NBV, and the global implementation and scaling of HBsAg testing. Register here: tinyurl.com/4h3nfcr8

Congratulations to Dr. Gibril Ndow, COR-HEP B’s Director of Research, named First Place Winner of the 2025 Tumani Corrah Prize for Excellence by AREF 🎉

His work continues to advance hepatitis research and health across Africa.

Learn more: africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/news-and-sto...

Dr. Saia Ma'u Piukala emphasizes the need for expanded diagnosis, treatment, stronger partnerships, and affordable access to hepatitis medicine, starting at the primary care level, ahead of the 2027 UN meeting. Learn more about the 2025 meeting here: buff.ly/ZY7VoIa

📣Calling all Zambia-based CSOs: CGHE is accepting proposals to strengthen Hepatitis B birth dose (HepB-BD) advocacy and raise awareness on timely newborn vaccination.

🗓️ Apply by Nov 9, 2025
🔗 globalhep.org/news-blogs/announcing-request-proposals-hepatitis-b-birth-dose-hepb-bd-advocacy-zambia

Join our webinar on point-of-care HBsAg testing—an essential tool to close gaps in #HepatitisB diagnosis & prevent mother-to-child transmission. Hear from global partners on scaling testing in diverse settings.

🔗 Register here: events.zoom.us/ev/AjC7fXiGd...

#HepatitisElimination #GlobalHealth

🥁 Drum roll… Announcing this year’s Grand Prize Winner! 🏆
Photo by Reu Dawner Flores in Laoag City, Philippines: a health worker prepares an HBV vaccine as a mother cradles her child—capturing science, love & hope for the next generation.

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🏆 Tied First Place, Category 1! Taken at the Vincentius Putra Orphanage in Jakarta, this photo by Edhie Purwanto—who lives with hepatitis B—captures a Budi Lukmanto Foundation program providing lifesaving HBV vaccines.

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🏆 Congrats to Supriya Biswas, First Place (tie) in Category 1! His photo shows families living along Kolkata’s railway line, where a health worker checks children for hepatitis A & B vaccination and screens residents for symptoms.

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Announcing the Runner-up winning photo for Category 1 🏆

Photo by Zunaid Paiker for the National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh. Bright girls at Sylhet’s Government Children’s Home receive free hepatitis vaccines. “Together, eliminating hepatitis”

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Announcing the winner for Category 2! 👏

This photo by Arpan Basu Chowdhury captures a remote village in West Bengal, India, where an ASHA Worker conducts an HBsAg test on a pregnant woman at a primary school medical camp.

Read more: Link in bio!

Announcing the Runner-up tie winner for Category 2! 👏

Amitava Chandra's photo captures an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) at a health centre. The image shows a child receiving a vaccination on her mother, Mrs. Malati Burman's lap, with the ANM calming the child's fear of injections.

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Announcing the Runner-up tie winner for Category 2! 👏

This photo, taken by Michelle Ajoc for the City Health Office of Antipolo, shows a rural health initiative in which a young boy receives the Hepatitis B birth dose, marking a vital step in lifelong protection.

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Congrats to the first-place winner for Category 3: Ghulam Farooque for AIMS, Hyderabad, Pakistan👏

This photo shows faculty educating Jhupra Pati residents on hepatitis risks, vaccination, and safe care—an #EliminationEverywhere approach.

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👏 Congrats to our Category 3 Runner-up (tie)!

By Damilola Olarewaju for LiveWell Initiative: Children in Makoko, Lagos, proudly share hepatitis flyers during a July 2025 outreach—spreading HBV prevention, testing & care messages to families.

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📸 Announcing our Category 3 Runner-up (tie): Rhodah Nisa Masibo, National AIDS & STI Control Program, Kenya!

This photo captures a clinician in Kwale guiding a newly diagnosed Hep C patient on daily observed therapy.

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Celebrating the fight to end viral hepatitis 📸 CGHE is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 #EliminationInAction Photo Contest—powerful images of the people & progress driving elimination worldwide. Stay tuned for this year’s photo rollout!

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#GlobalHepatitis

The 4th Annual Meeting of the UN Group of Friends to #EliminateHepatitis was a huge success! A huge thanks to the 30+ countries in attendance contributing fruitful thoughts on progress, challenges, and next steps to ensure #HBV and #HVC prevention, testing and care are available to all.

"No one is safe unless everybody is safe." Brazil's Dr. Mariângela Batista Galvao Simao expresses deep support the the UN Group of Friends to Eliminate Hepatitis. "Brazil is proud to be part of this Coalition." #UNGA80 #SDGs
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"The Western Pacific Region accounts for 1/3rd of the global burden, nearly half of the global hepatitis deaths. This is not a health crisis- it is a crisis of equity, dignity and human rights."
Dr. Saia Ma'u Piukala calls for a UN high-level meeting on #hepatitis elimination.

"Every two minutes someone dies from hepatitis-related illness, most often in low and middle-income countries like in Uganda" - Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health #Unganda #UNGA80 #SDGs
-UN Group of Friends to Eliminate Hepatitis 4th Annual Meeting
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"I bring with me the voice of millions of Africans living with hepatitis." @WHO African Region Director Mohamed Yakub Janabi shares a personal story of a friend diagnosed with hepatitis B. "What struck me was the silence about it." #UNGA80 #EndHepatitis

The UN Group of Friends to #EliminateHepatitis at #UNGA80 is underway! Tune into the livestream to hear from missions and ministries of health about achievements and goals for #HBV and #HCV elimination worldwide: vimeo.com/event/538658...

UN Group of Friends to Eliminate Hepatitis, Global Diplomacy to Eliminate Hepatitis: A Growing Coalition Fourth Annual Meeting | September 22, 2025

📅 Monday, September 22 | 5:00 PM EST
📍 Livestream link: vimeo.com/event/538658...
📄 Program Agenda: www.globalhep.org/webinars-eve...