Egypt has become the first country to achieve the ‘gold tier’ status on the path of eliminating hepatitis C, a viral infection.
In a statement published on its website on Monday, WHO said achieving the gold tier means that Egypt has fulfilled the requirements that facilitate the reduction of new hepatitis C infections and deaths to levels that position the country to end the hepatitis C epidemic.
The global health body noted that Egypt has diagnosed 87 per cent of people living with hepatitis C and provided 93 per cent of those diagnosed with curative treatment.
