July 28 is a day to call for action and raise awareness on the global burden of viral hepatitis which impacts over 325 million people in the world. CanHepC joins its voice to the World Hepatitis Day campaign under the theme ‘I Can’t Wait’ urging for concrete action to be taken to tackle viral...
CanHepC held its 7th Annual Meeting on May 12, 2022 in person in Ottawa gathering 67 of our member investigators, knowledge users, collaborators, and trainees.
The meeting provided a much anticipated opportunity for all our members to reconnect after two years of COVID-19 pandemic. The...
The CanHepC trainee fellowship competition provides transdisciplinary training and stipends to exceptional university graduates at various stages of their academic and professional career.
A total of 7 new student trainees will be joining the ranks of the program in September 2023:...
CanHepC’s flagship meeting, the 11th Canadian Symposium on HCV (CSHCV) took place on May 13, 2022 as part of the Canadian Liver Meeting. Co-chaired by Nadine Kronfli and Rodney Russell, under the theme getting back on track toward hepatitis C elimination, the CSHCV this year was held in a...
September 30th, 2021 will mark Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in honor of the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities.
This past June, the government of Canada created this federal statutory holiday as a direct...
In this recent study published in Nature Immunology, researchers found exhausted T cells retained epigenetic ‘scars’ restraining their optimal recovery even after cure of chronic infection.
Long-term exposure to cancer and chronic viral infections can lead to the exhaustion of immune...
The rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been aided by our efforts to understand other pathogens such as hepatitis viruses, and in turn, there are lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2 to combat the viral hepatitis pandemic.
Thus far, we have diagnosed only about 10% of people living...
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day, a day to take action and raise awareness on viral hepatitis globally. The World Hepatitis Day 2021 campaign under the theme ‘Hep Can’t Wait’ reminds us that urgent action is needed to tackle viral hepatitis and reach global elimination targets.
Despite...
Action Hepatitis Canada has prepared a hepatitis elimination 2021 progress report in Canada. Measuring progress towards some of the targets and recommendations from CanHepC’s Blueprint to inform hepatitis C elimination efforts in Canada, this report looks at how each Canadian provinces and...
