Project Period
2015-2017

Summary
In early 2015 a group of viral hepatitis experts within the HIV Europe Initiative formed a working group to develop a consensus definition for viral hepatitis. After discussions,  meetings and several reviews the final two agreed upon definitions were approved by the EASL GB in early October 2015 and on Thursday 22 October EASL and HIV in Europe announced a consensus definition of late presentation for viral hepatitis. The announcement coincided with the European AIDS Conference in Barcelona and aims to encourage policy makers, health professionals, public health institutions and civil society organisations to implement this definition to improve the European surveillance of and response to the viral hepatitis epidemic. 

Presentations and Publications
Late presentation of chronic viral hepatitis for medical care: a consensus definition
Mauss S, Pol S, Buti M, Duffell E, Gore C, Lazarus JV, der Grient HL, Lundgren J, Mozalevskis A, Raben D, Schatz E, Wiktor S, Rockstroh JK; European consensus working group on late presentation for Viral Hepatitis Care
BMC Med. 2017 May 3;15(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0856-y.

Main Partners
European Association for the Study of the Liver, EASL
EuroTEST