By Dr Laila Rizvi | Executive Director
Population wise (> 8 million) and prevalence wise (5%) Pakistan has the second highest global burden of Hepatitis C virus infection. With an increasing population and rising exposure rates to the risk factors, it is estimated that approximately 240,000 new HCV cases are added annually to the existing pool with less than 50% of these have access to any kind of appropriate health care
The Health Foundation through its Hepatitis Free Community models being implemented directly within high prevalent communities aim to address the key component of Pakistan National Hepatitis Strategic Framework (NHSF) for Pakistan 2017-2021 i.e. “viral hepatitis transmission is halted and everyone living with viral hepatitis has access to safe, affordable and effective prevention, care and treatment services”.
A major challenge in the Hepatitis control efforts is the lack of awareness amongst communities to get themselves tested against this “silent killer”. The Health Foundation has started a massive Screening drive to find the “Missing Millions” Once these patients are identified , their disease status confirmed , they are taken into the THF treatment program
A project to support the treatment for 1000 poorest of the poor patients was pledged on GlobalGiving.
A total of 40 patients have been registered for Hepatitis C till date through funds received from GlobalGiving
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