Health Ministry launches new campaign to reveal and help people with Hepatitis C
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Georgia’s Health Ministry has launched a new campaign titled Cure Yourself in order to encourage the people to be tested for Hepatitis C, as the disease has no symptoms until too late.
Through the campaign #áááááá£á áá the Ministry appeals to people to apply screening in order to understand whether they have the illness or not, as the treatment of Hepatitis C is free of charge in Georgia.
In the Hepatitis C Elimination Program, which started in Georgia under the current state leadership in 2015, 41,000 people have been registered, out of which 40,000 have received relevant treatment which costs thousands of dollars in other countries.
The Ministry announces that 30,000 patients have already completed the treatment and the cure rate is 98percent.
- Through the partnership with the American company Gilead, Georgia launched a large-scale Hepatitis C Elimination Program in 2015. The program aims to make Georgia a Hepatitis C-free country by 2020.
Gilead now provides Georgia with a medicine Harvoni free of charge.
- Typically Harvoni costs $110,000 as a minimum per person for one course of treatment.
Georgia had one of the highest estimated virus prevalence rates in the world, affecting 6.7 percent of the population.
A new modern centre for Hepatitis C management has opened in the town of Zugdidi in Georgia’s western Samegrelo region today.
US Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly said his country will continue supporting Georgia with its Hepatitis C elimination program.
The Government of Georgia claims Hepatitis C will be virtually eliminated by 2020 thanks to the revolutionary treatment program that is treating and curing infected people in Georgia.
Georgia is preparing to sign a trilateral agreement that will allow a new medicine to be introduced to the market, which aimed to completely eradicate the infectious disease in Georgia.
Georgia’s Minister of Health David Sergeenko is meeting with politicians and health experts in the United States. He held a meeting with Senator Richard Lugar and discussed Georgia-US cooperation in the field of healthcare.
Emergency assistance and Hepatitis C screening will now be available on the central boulevard of the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
Georgia's Health Ministry has launched its first-ever paramedic training course - a course training doctors to give emergency medical care to people who are seriously ill with the aim of stabilising them before they are taken to hospital.
Around 45,000 people have gone through medical treatment for Hepatitis C in Georgia, 98 percent of which were cured, the head of Georgia’s National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze said.
According to three years results of the Hepatitis C elimination programme, 50,000 people are involved in the process currently and treatment rate is 98,2 percent.
The programme to eliminate Hepatitis C is expanding in Georgia. In addition to medical institutions, screening will now also available at Public Service Halls.
With the help of the United States, Georgia will bring in new medicine which is likely to completely defeat Hepatitis C in Georgia by 2020.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has stated that he is sure that Georgia will be become one of the first states worldwide which will manage to completely eradicate Hepatitis C.