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Recently, PDPH was awarded a grant from the Office of Minority
Health to execute a hepatitis B elimination demonstration project
in the city of Philadelphia. The project, named HBV PreVNTT
(Hepatitis B Virus Infection Prevention, Vaccination, Navigation,
Testing, and Treatment), will improve citywide infrastructure to
reduce transmission, deaths attributed to hepatitis B, and related
health disparities of those experiencing hepatitis B. Over the next
three years, PDPH and its project partners will initiate multiple
activities at health systems, clinics, and among high-risk communities
to increase testing and vaccination, and improve linkage to care
and treatment availability for infected individuals. Activities will
include culturally and linguistically competent community-based
education and screening; provider-based education; harm reduction
approaches; working with clinics, providers and health systems to
conduct continuous quality improvement processes to increase
appropriate hepatitis B vaccination, testing, care and treatment;
and using local surveillance data to identify out of care individuals
and perinatal HBV mothers to improve care services.
As we begin this three-year project in the fall of 2019, we
look forward to partnering with medical providers throughout
Philadelphia, to identify strategies and best practices for identifying and managing infected individuals and vaccinating high-risk
adults, and to help us improve the capacity throughout the city
of Philadelphia to eliminate hepatitis B. Together, we can save
the lives of thousands of Philadelphians. If you are interested in
learning more about this project and how you can participate, please
contact Danica Kuncio (Danica.Kuncio@phila.gov) at PDPH or
Catherine Freeland (Catherine.Freeland@hepb.org) at Hepatitis
B Foundation. *
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Viral hepatitis surveillance, United States, 2016.
If you are interested in learning more
about this project and how you can
participate, please contact Danica
Kuncio (Danica.Kuncio@phila.gov)
at PDPH or Catherine Freeland
(Catherine.Freeland@hepb.org)
1.
Global Hepatitis Report 2017. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017.
2.
at Hepatitis B Foundation.
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