Monitoring of the responses to the hepatitis B and C epidemics in EU/EEA countries, 2023

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has developed a monitoring system for hepatitis B and C to support countries in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) in monitoring responses to their epidemics of hepatitis B and C. The monitoring system is closely aligned with the indicators and hepatitis elimination targets of the Global Health Sector Strategy (GHSS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region Action Plan. In this report, we provide an overview of the data reported by countries in the EU and EEA in 2023 to describe progress towards the 2025 interim targets for hepatitis elimination as outlined in the WHO European Region Action Plan 2022-2030. In 2023, all 30 EU/EEA countries responded to the monitoring questionnaire and provided data for one or more of the questions. Overall, 25 countries were able to provide national data for at least one stage of the continuum for hepatitis B care, although no country was able to provide data across all stages. For hepatitis C, 29 countries provided national-level data for at least one stage of the continuum of care, with four countries providing data across all four key stages of the continuum.