The Hepatitis B Foundation extended its engagement in Africa this fall with staff participating in two major, influential conferences: the Conference on Liver Disease in Africa (COLDA), held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in September and the African Hepatitis Summit in Abuja, Nigeria in October.
Nearly 500 scientists from 28 countries participated in person and online. The Hepatitis B Foundation has coordinated the conference every year since 2005, except for 2020, when COVID-19 forced a cancellation.
he summit brought together nearly 100 community leaders, advocates, clinicians, federal partners and people living with hepatitis B to discuss strategies and challenges towards eliminating hepatitis B in the U.S.
Join us for a webinar in honor of Liver Cancer Awareness Month! On October 16th at 3pm, Eastern Time, we will be joined by Dr. Kenneth Rothstein, Director of Regional Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania, who will be discussing the trends he is seeing in liver cancer in African communities in the Philadelphia area and methods for effectively lowering these rates. Please join us!
This year’s guest speaker at the Bruce Witte Memorial Lecture is Barbara Rehermann, M.D. who works at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases.
Join us November 10-14 in Boston to strengthen our collective knowledge, forge powerful connections, and advance the understanding of liver health.
The Africa Hepatitis Summit 2023’s theme is “Putting Africa on Track towards Viral Hepatitis Elimination”. AHS 2023 will be held for (3) three days and will be covered in plenary sessions, satellite side meetings and an exhibition that will be open to all delegates. We are looking forward to seeing you in Abuja, Nigeria.