WHO awards Egypt with gold tier status on the path to eliminate hepatitis C.

On Oct 9, 2023, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presented the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi with a certificate declaring that Egypt had been awarded gold tier status on the path to elimination of hepatitis C. Egypt, which had once had the highest prevalence of hepatitis C globally, is now the first country to have undergone validation for elimination by WHO and has achieved a milestone in disease elimination.