Resources for the Strategic Plan
World Hepatitis Day -- May 19, 2008
If your organization would like to be added to the sign on letter, please let me know by Friday, April 18. ctaylor@nastad.org.
NVHR World Hepatitis Day Information Toolkit Organizational Sign On Letter Requesting the Pan American Health Organization Endorse World Hepatitis Day Given your interest and support for increasing the profile of the viral hepatitis epidemics in the U.S. and around the world, the World Hepatitis Alliance is seeking your help in its plans for World Hepatitis Day 2008. Please see the attached organizational sign on letter to Dr. Mirta Roses Periago of the Pan American Health Organization (the regional World Health Organization office) requesting official WHO endorsement of World Hepatitis Day. Global organizers are hoping that the regional offices of WHO will weigh in on the importance of increased attention to viral hepatitis at the WHO meeting in Switzerland in May. |
Apologies for Cross Postings – Please Distribute to Hepatitis Advocates in Your Area! With less than two weeks to go until World Hepatitis Day 2008, there are many activities planned throughout the country. Whether at the national, state or local level, there has been an overwhelming response from hepatitis advocates throughout the country! So many activities are being planned that have built on past observances or programs, and some communities are observing hepatitis awareness for the first time! However you are planning to raise awareness of viral hepatitis – whether focusing on World Hepatitis Day, Hepatitis Awareness Month, Hepatitis B Week – it is a wonderful opportunity to highlight the need for additional funding, services and community awareness! Attached is the May World Hepatitis Day Newsletter as well as some background documents on the campaign.(see below> The global website www.aminumber12.org will automatically direct visitors to www.worldhepatitisday.com on May 19. There will be information about HBV and HCV, where to find resources locally, etc. If you would like to have your organization listed on the website, or a link to your organization, please send your logo and web address ASAP to: worldhepday@fleishman.com. Thank you again for your interest in raising awareness of viral hepatitis! This international observance has been a large undertaking! Collectively, our presence and influence will grow as we continue to raise the profile of viral hepatitis. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Chris Taylor, Viral Hepatitis Program Manager "Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Health"
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Background In recent years hepatitis patient groups have attempted to change this by co-ordinating awareness activities around a specific day, notably October 1st. However, despite some success, these initiatives have never been truly global, the North and South American patient groups, for example, being unable, for various reasons, to participate on October 1st. Furthermore, these initiatives have not always been driven by the patient groups themselves. Patient group representatives from North America, South America, Europe, North Africa, Australasia and China therefore met in Barcelona in April 2007 to commit to a new global initiative. The necessity of a single awareness day to act as a focus was agreed, despite the acknowledgement that there are far too many such ‘days’, because it was felt that the level of awareness of chronic viral hepatitis was so inexplicably low for a problem of this size. May 19th was chosen, the first Day to be in 2008. In order to oversee World Hepatitis Day and to ensure that it is a patient-led initiative, the World Hepatitis Alliance was established in Geneva with a governing board of patient representatives, one from each of 6 world regions, and a president representing the totality of hepatitis patients. During the summer of 2007 the Alliance asked 12 worldwide communications agencies to pitch to run the World Hepatitis Day campaign and chose Fleishman-Hillard. Campaign Theme Campaign Aims
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