New hepatitis C treatment bound for Georgia
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Georgia is stepping up its fight against the infectious disease hepatitis C with new medicine soon to enter the local market.
"Georgia will become one of the first countries in the world where the problem of hepatitis C will be solved and this terrible disease will be overcome,” Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today.
The Georgian leader met with the country’s Health Minister David Sergeenko today and discussed the latter’s recent trip to the United States (US), where he negotiated with the American authorities about introducing Sofosbuvir, a new hepatitis C treatment to Georgia.
Sergeenko said an agreement was reached to import the medicine from the US to Georgia from next year.
"An unprecedented program will start in Georgia through which hepatitis C will be almost completely eradicated,” PM Garibashvili said after the meeting.
"This is a great achievement for our Government and for Mr. David Sergeenko. The main motivation that triggered the American side’s decision was reforms carried out by our Government,” he said.
"These [reforms] include the universal insurance program and the hepatitis C treatment program, through which we treated thousands of patients including 1,000 prisoners. This is a real reform which was achieved in two years and millions of money was spent on it,” he noted.
About two dozen prisoners undergoing the free Hepatitis C program in Georgian jails have been cured of the disease.
The first group of prisoners undergoing the free Hepatitis C program in Georgian jails have been cured of the disease.
Georgia’s Prime Minister discussed the country’s drug policy reforms with a delegation representing the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
More than 1,000 prisoners with hepatitis C will receive free treatment in the next two years, the Ministry of Health announced today. In addition, the same medicine will be subsidized by 60% for the greater Georgian population.
Georgia has met all of its obligations outlined in the judgement of nine healthcare violations in Georgian prisons and taken necessary steps reduce the number of future violations, international officials said at a special Council of Europe meeting comprising of EU member states representatives.
We are planning major changes in some very important fields of our country, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on the annual press-conference today.
Village doctors, Hepatitis C Program, maternal and child health, infrastructural projects are the most important achievements of the Health Ministry throughout the last two years according to the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs David Sergeenko.
The Georgian Government has declared 2015 as the year of fighting against Hepatitis C, says Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
Georgia’s President and the first lady have joined the country's new campaign to intensify the fight against Hepatitis C.
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.
In about five years from now, Georgia will be a Hepatitis C-free country thanks to a unique treatment program which was introduced today.
Georgia has announced a new major reform to modernise the country’s health system.
Georgia’s Minister of Health, Labour and Social Affairs Davit Sergeenko says the treatment of Hepatitis C will continue in Georgia until the virus has been eliminated from the country and all sufferers are cured.
Twenty thousand people suffering from Hepatitis C in Georgia will receive free treatment this year and potentially enjoy 100 percent recovery thanks to an offer from American pharmaceutical firm Gilead to provide a new medicine to Georgia for free.
Georgia’s Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, David Sergeenko says all people infected with Hepatitis C can receive free treatment.
PM stresses Georgia’s “stunning achievements”
Today the world marks Hepatics Day in order to bring different people together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change.