Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Elimination of Hepatitis C: Discussion
Mr. Marcus Keane:
We need to take concerted action to make sure we are doing everything possible to drive towards those targets. In order to do that, we first need to explicitly state that it is those World Health Organization targets we are going after. If we look at the historical development of policy, we can see that the national treatment programme and the advisory groups that support it were set up at a time that predated the World Health Organization setting these goals. When they were set up these may not have been explicit targets. Now that the World Health Organization has set those targets, these are the things we need to be explicitly driving towards and we need a coherent strategy to be able to do that. That is what the recommendations are aimed towards.
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