Recentering hepatitis care for people and communities

Strengthening the integrated treatment and care for hepatitis

The goal of the STITCH Project is to co-design a people-centered model of care for hepatitis B and C at the primary health care level. Through a process of patient journey mapping and meaningful engagement with health care providers, people with lived experience, and health care policymakers, we aim to create and implement an evidence-based model-of-care which is integrated into existing health service delivery at primary care facilities in Viet Nam and the Philippines, where viral hepatitis is the leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. This project is done in collaboration with HAIVN (a collaboration between Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital) and the University of Philippines Manilla, and is supported by Gilead Sciences.

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Watch this MGH/BWH Global Health Grand Rounds session to understand the importance of the people-centered approach and how this approach is impacting the primary care model for hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and management in Viet Nam and the Philippines