FYI and consideration. You will need to register for the tomorrow Webinar.
From: DARA, Masoud
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 12:04
To: EURO DEC/JTH RO All Staff
Cc: BRICKMAN, Stephanie
Subject: World Hepatitis Day 2020/package for WHO Country Offices
Respectful WHO Representatives and Heads of Country Offices (in bcc for technical reasons),
Dear Regional and country office JTH teams,
World Hepatitis Day will be held this year, as previous years, on 28th July. The EURO flagship publication will be the
Compendium of good practices in the health sector response to viral hepatitis in the WHO European Region which will be launched during
a webinar organized by the Regional Office on Monday 27 July at 11:00 CET (with simultaneous Russian interpretation) exploring some of the great case studies in the Compendium. To join the webinar please share information with your team and counterparts
and suggest them to visit the
registration webpage.
Early next week, we will send you the 2020 presentation in English and Russian, which you can adapt to your setting. The WHO/Europe fact sheets on
hepatitis B and
hepatitis C, and various country stories which will be appearing on the
WHO/Europe website.
The social media campaign under the hashtag
#HepFreeFuture will be active as of 24 July, using a variety of products available in English, Russian and selected other languages on the campaign platform
https://www.who-europe-campaigns.org/.
The headquarters will be holding an online summit on Tuesday 28 July, and
campaign materials (including in Russian) are available. More advocacy and communication tools can be found on the World Hepatitis Alliance
web page.
Should you have any question or require additional support with your campaign, please contact Ms Stephanie Brickman
brickmans@who.int , Dr Nicole Seguy
seguyn@who.int HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STI Unit Lead, Dr Antons Mozalevskis
mozalevskisa@who.int or me.
We look forward to joining our forces for the World Hepatitis Day, together we shall remind the decision-makers and partners of the importance of scaling up our efforts, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, to eliminate viral hepatitis and give
hope to millions of people living with viral hepatitis and their families in our Region.
Thank you and all the best,
Masoud
Dr Masoud Dara
Coordinator, Communicable Diseases
Division of Country Health Programmes
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Email:
daram@who.int
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