HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit “Eliminating HCV in ” 22 November 2017 Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit – Speakers

Vana Sypsa Georgios Kyrtsos Angelos Hatzakis George Kalamitsis Panos Papadopoulos Nikolaos Manios Assistant Professor at Member of the European Co-Chair of Hepatitis Chair of the Hellenic Liver Chief of Cabinet, Member of Hellenic University of , Parliament B&C Public Policy Patients Association Ministry of Health Parliament Association «Promotheus » School of Medicine

Kyriakos Souliotis George V. Papatheodoridis Alexis Goosdeel Ricardo Baptista Leite Charles Gore Associate Professor of President of the Hellenic Director of the European Member of the Portuguese President of the World Health Policy, University Association for the Study of the Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Parliament Hepatitis Alliance of Peloponnese Liver Drug Addiction Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit – Attendees

More than 30 attendees, including: • 6 National policy makers Journalists • 10 European policy makers • 5 Academics • 4 Patient organisations • 12 Stakeholders, including industry representatives from Gilead, AbbVie and MSD

Notable attendees • Georgios Kyrtsos, Member of the • , Vice-President of the European Parliament • , Member of the European Parliament • Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Member of the European Parliament • , Member of the European Parliament • Konstantinos Bargiotas, Member of • Jason Fotilas, Member of Hellenic Parliament • Nikolaos Manios, Member of Hellenic Parliament • Ricardo Baptista Leite, Member of Portuguese Parliament • Georgios Georgakopoulos, Health Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the EU • Alexis Goosdeel, Director of European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction • Vasileios Gkitakos, President of KETHEA • Evangelos Kafetzopoulos, President of OKANA Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit - Coverage

The event generated traction on both traditional and social media including: • Press release sent out to key media outlets • Media attendance to the event • Facebook posts with likes and shares • Tweets with likes and shares Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit - Coverage Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit – Detailed Programme

Welcome and introduction Potential solutions to eliminating HCV • Welcome, context of meeting & objectives • Concrete suggestions to eliminate HCV in Greece • Presentation of the Hepatitis B&C Public Policy • Prevention in vulnerable groups/treatment as prevention Association and the Elimination Manifesto in PWID • Modus operandi of the meeting • Best practice example from Portugal: management of a central registry that includes information on HCV patients The Hellenic response to HCV elimination from vulnerable groups • Greece’s national strategy and action plan • Recommendations from the HCV Policy Guidelines: • The role of the Social Affairs Committee in public health examples of actions for policy-makers to take to address the challenges of the EU Manifesto on Hepatitis C Eliminating HCV in Greece: challenges Elimination • Screening in the general population, objectives and The way forward: How to eliminate HCV in Greece (outcomes effectiveness indicators oriented discussion) • Barriers to access to treatment: What now? Wrap-up and signing of the Elimination Manifesto • Main outcomes & takeaways of the meeting • Next steps & invitation to sign the Elimination Manifesto Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit - Outcomes

Through the Greek HCV Elimination Mini Policy Summit, we managed to: • Facilitate engagement between Greek level and the EU level, to demonstrate what the government and the stakeholder community are trying to achieve and how the EU can support these efforts; • Understand the challenges Greek faces: lack of awareness and screening and low access to innovative treatments; • Share the existing best practice of Portugal to reinforce the fact that HCV elimination is a possibility; • Discuss concrete solutions to support Greece in eliminating HCV and the role of the national government and the EU in this context; • Identify required policy changes to achieve elimination of HCV by 2030 in Europe and the concrete steps that need to be taken (both at EU and Greek levels) to ensure the implementation of the Elimination Manifesto; • Alignment on the pressing need for more inclusive treatment criteria in order to increase access; • Involve all key stakeholders in Greece to achieve the goal of HCV elimination.