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The EUROHEP.NET project addressed issues related to surveillance and prevention of hepatitis A and B in the EU countries, Associated States and Israel (28 countries) with a view to study the feasibility of a future network on surveillance and prevention and to speed up the progress of these countries towards control of hepatitis A and B.
EUROHEP.NET targetted 28 countries including the 15 countries of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and UK), the 12 Associated States (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) and Israel.

The overall aim of this concerted action was to take stock, co-ordinate, strengthen and standardise the country-specific surveillance and prevention activity of viral hepatitis A and B. This has be achieved by establishing a feasibility study of a future network on surveillance of hepatitis A and B in the 28 participating countries, integrating the expert epidemiology and public health groups involved in the surveillance of infectious diseases in the respective countries.

Results and outcome

This concerted action was terminated end of August 2005. The results and outcome of this project are still available on this web site.

  • Recommendations for hepatitis A and B surveillance and prevention.

    • These recommendations are the major outcome of the project and were established after multiple interactions with the participating countries. pdf version available on the guidelines page

  • Resuming meeting in Malta:

    • A EUROHEP.NET meeting was held in Malta, all countries that participated in the first (survey) and/or second phase (comments on the guidelines) of the project were invited.
      Most presentations, the participants list and a group picture are available on the meeting page.

  • Progress reports:

    • Summary of the progress reports of the first and the second year of the project are accessible.

  • EUROHEP.NET book:

    • All pages of the book: Surveillance and prevention of Vaccine Preventable Hepatitis: Data on surveillance and prevention of hepatitis A and B in 22 countries 1990s-2001 are electronically accessible.
      In this book data collected from 22 countries during the first phase of the EUROHEP.NET project is presented in a uniform way.

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