{"id":8883,"date":"2026-04-28T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/global-hepatitis-report-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:30:07","slug":"global-hepatitis-report-2026","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/global-hepatitis-report-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Global hepatitis report 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"dynamic-content__section dynamic-content__container\">\n<div class=\"dynamic-content__section-container\">\n<div class=\"dynamic-content__figure-container\">\n<figure class=\"dynamic-content__figure\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/ef3ed8ae-bd7c-4b5f-aae2-d103875556f5\/content\" alt=\"Global hepatitis report 2026\"><br \/>\n     <\/figure>\n<div class=\"button button-blue-background\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/6f6caedc-37a0-49ee-a02a-df9c3b78ff42\/content\" onclick=\"sendGaEvent('Download','https:\/\/iris.who.int\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/6f6caedc-37a0-49ee-a02a-df9c3b78ff42\/content')\">Download <span>(5.2 MB)<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"dynamic-content__description-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"dynamic-content__description\">\n<h3>Overview <\/h3>\n<p>The Global hepatitis report 2026 provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the global burden of hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV), which together account for more than 95% of deaths related to viral hepatitis. Despite being preventable and treatable, viral hepatitis remains one of the leading infectious disease killers worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report also highlights the progress in response efforts at global, regional and country levels, in the context of global commitments, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes\/strategies\/global-health-sector-strategies\">strategies <\/a>and targets.<\/p>\n<p>The report is organized around 4 major topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overview of global commitments, strategies and targets related to viral hepatitis;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The status of the HBV and HCV epidemics and trends in the period 2015\u20132024;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Progress in coverage of interventions for prevention, diagnosis and treatment; and\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Priorities for action at global and regional levels to accelerate progress towards the 2030 elimination targets, and associated country examples.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report is primarily based on data compiled from Member States in periodic rounds of global hepatitis data collection managed by WHO and model-based estimates of incidence, prevalence and mortality. In the 2025 round, 140 WHO Member States reported data, an increase from 113 in the previous round in 2023. Additional data sources include the WHO Global Health Observatory and databases managed by other UN agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"dynamic-content__accordion\" class=\"dynamic-content__accordion\">\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes\/hepatitis\/reports\/global-hepatitis-report-2026\">See press release, key messages and related materials on the report landing page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes\/hepatitis\/overview\">Technical work on hepatitis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<div class=\"dynamic-content__details\">\n<div class=\"detail who-team\">\n<div class=\"label\">WHO Team<\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">\n                 <span><br \/>\n                             <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes\/hiv\/overview\">Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes (HHS)<\/a>,                  <\/span><br \/>\n                 <span><br \/>\nHIV, TB, Hepatitis and STIs (HTH)                 <\/span>\n         <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"detail\">\n<div class=\"label\">Editors<\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">World Health Organization<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"detail\">\n<div class=\"label\">Number of pages<\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">94<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"detail\">\n<div class=\"label\">Reference numbers<\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">\n<div><strong class=\"label-sm\">ISBN: <\/strong><span>978-92-4-012238-3<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"detail\">\n<div class=\"label\">Copyright<\/div>\n<p>                <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"creativecommons-icons-wrappers\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/igo\/deed.en\" rel=\"license\" title=\"Click here to see the details of CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ResourcePackages\/WHO\/assets\/icons\/cc-icons\/cc.svg\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ResourcePackages\/WHO\/assets\/icons\/cc-icons\/by.svg\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ResourcePackages\/WHO\/assets\/icons\/cc-icons\/nc.svg\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ResourcePackages\/WHO\/assets\/icons\/cc-icons\/sa.svg\"><br \/>\n                <\/a>\n        <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789240122383?rand=6398\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download (5.2 MB) Overview The Global hepatitis report 2026 provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the global burden of hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV), which together account for more than 95% of deaths related to viral hepatitis. Despite being preventable and treatable, viral hepatitis remains one of the leading infectious disease killers worldwide.\u00a0 The report also&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99035,"featured_media":8884,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[455,1382,687],"ground_category":[315,316],"class_list":["post-8883","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-global","tag-hepatitis","tag-report","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-1-time-disease"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/ef3ed8ae-bd7c-4b5f-aae2-d103875556f5\/content","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}