When Dr. Ana Patricia Vélez (62) was diagnosed with hepatitis C more than 20 years ago, nucleic acid testing to diagnose the disease was not available in Guatemala and there was a major lack of awareness and painful stigma associated with its transmission.

Brazil's Unified Health System has provided free rapid tests to detect hepatitis C since 2011 and free medicines for the disease since 2015. As a result, the country now has a 90% cure rate for chronic hepatitis C.

Child vaccination programmes are beating endemic hepatitis B in Ayacucho and a new elimination plan now seeks to address the remaining challenges...

Yenny Antonio Leon is a 25-year-old mother from Huanta, Ayacucho, Peru, who was diagnosed with hepatitis B before having her baby. "When I found out, I felt terrible because I thought it was a fatal disease," she recalls. Her biggest concern, however, was the possibility of transmitting the disease to her baby. But she followed all her doctor's recommendations to the letter.

Single-dose vaccination strategy for infants dramatically reduces cases and has eradicated the need for transplants due to acute liver failure in children

In 1985, a Hepatitis B sero-prevalence study conducted in St Kitts and Nevis revealed high prevalence rates of Hepatitis B infection (HBV) with the highest risk of acquiring the infection occurring during the perinatal period and in early school years.

“I’m cured,” said Diego Villoldo with a big smile after getting the results of his treatment for hepatitis C, which was performed in a hospital in the city of Buenos Aires. Diagnosed in 2007, it had been a long and sometimes rocky road, but in three months the new treatment...