The Viral Hepatitis National Strategic Plan: A Roadmap to Elimination 2021-2025 (Viral Hepatitis Plan, Plan) - PDF provides a framework to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat in the United States by 2030. The Viral Hepatitis Plan focuses on hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C—the three most common hepatitis viruses that have the most impact on the health of the nation. The Plan provides goal-oriented objectives and strategies that can be implemented by a broad mix of stakeholders at all levels and across many sectors, both public and private, to reverse the rates of viral hepatitis, prevent new infections, improve care and treatment and ultimately eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat in the United States.
The Viral Hepatitis Plan builds on three prior National Viral Hepatitis Action Plans, which covered the periods of 2011–2020. The Viral Hepatitis National Strategic Plan: A Roadmap to Elimination 2021–2025 is the first Plan to aim for elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat in the United States.
The Viral Hepatitis Plan was developed under the direction of the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with subject matter experts from across the federal government and with input from a wide range of stakeholders including the public.