CAIRO/NEW YORK, Sept 23 (MENA) - Health and Population Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar asserted that Egypt managed to reduce hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections to 0.38 percent in 2022 under the presidential initiative “100 million healthy lives”.

The initiative offered free virus C treatment in 170 centers nationwide, he added in remarks he gave at a meeting of the UN Group of Friends to Eliminate Hepatitis, held on the sidelines of 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

He noted this achievement was made thanks to the successful measures to control HCV as a public health threat in Egypt which in 2008 had had the highest HCV prevalence in the world where there were about 6 million confirmed hepatitis C cases.

He said Egypt is awaiting for a declaration of the World Health Organization that Egypt is free from this viral disease. (MENA)
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