Current and Past "B Informed" Newsletters
Fall/Winter 2022 Issue
- Amplifying Voices
- Comprehensive program in Vietnam provides model
- Assessing discrimination
- New, high-value model for community events
- New additions to our team
- Drug Watch
Winter 2021 Issue
Highlights include:
- Passing the torch and celebrating 30 years!
- Progress toward a cure
- CDC awards $1.4 million for Hep B United
- Major wins on Capitol Hill
- Landmark vote by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to recommend universal adult hepatitis B vaccination
- Saving the next generation from hepatitis B infection in Nigeria
- Nobel Prize Laureate delivers Witte Lecture
Summer 2021 Issue
Highlights include:
- The impact of COVID-19 on people living with hepatitis B in the U.S.
- Launch of world's first discrimination registry
- New forum: HepBcommunity
- World Hepatitis Day
- New podcast: B Heppy
- AASLD award to Joan and Tim Block
Fall 2020 Issue
Highlights include:
- Going Global with the B the Voice Storybank
- PFDD
- The Foundation welcomes 3 new employees
- New hepatitis delta treatment approved by European Commission
- What Happened to the Cure for Hepatitis B?
- 30th Anniversary
Fall 2018 Issue
Highlights include:
- Hepatitis B Foundation Launching Effort to Improve Patient Access to Hepatitis B Medications
- New Vice Presidents Named
- Hep B Cure Campaign Grows Momentum
- Hepatitis B Foundation to Provide Resources for African Immigrant Communities
- Hep B United Summit
- Provider Profile: Dr. Su Wang
Summer 2018 Issue
Highlights include:
- Hepatitis B Foundation Call for Universal Screening for Hepatitis B
- Two-dose Hepatitis B Vaccine Now Available
- Partnering to End Hepatitis B in Vietnam
- 2017 HBV Meeting in DC
- Dr Tim Block Named Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Fall 2017 Issue
Highlights include:
- Baruch S. Blumberg Institute Discoveries Enter HBV Clinical Trials
- Hepatitis B Foundation Releases Roadmap for a Cure
- Empowering Patients in China
- Deadly Hepatitis Delta
- Hep B United Summit
- Tribute: Dr. W. Thomas London
Spring 2017 Issue
Highlights include:
- Hepatitis B Foundation Launches Hep B Cure Campaign
- Avoiding HBV Reactivation
- #justB Storytelling Campaign
- Tribute to Dr. Bud Tennant
- Crystal Ball Raises $138,000
- HBV Meeting in Seoul
Fall 2016 Issue
Highlights include:
- Explaining the Hepatitis B Drug Pipeline
- HBF Congratulates Michael Sofia on the 2016 Lasker-Debakey Award
- Hepb.org Relaunches with a New Look
- Hepatitis Delta Connect Program
- CDC Awards Hepatitis B Foundation 5-Year Cooperative Agreement
- It Takes a Coalition to Fight Hepatitis B
- HBF Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Spring 2016 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Baruch S. Blumberg Institute’s Hepatitis B Research Pipeline
- Good News in Bad Nauheim: The 2015 International HBV Meeting
- Blumberg Institute Forges New Academic Partnerships
- Dr. Bud Tennant Receives the HBF 2016 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize
- You Have Three Months to Live
- A Nobel Challenge: Mission Accomplished!
Fall 2015 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Hepatitis B Virus Discovery
- First World Hepatitis Summit in Glasgow Scotland
- Antiviral Research Journal Focuses on New HBV Therapies
- The W. Thomas London Distinguished Professorship Established
- 3rd Annual Hep B United National Summit
- Speaking Personally: The Story of a 31 Year Old Woman
Spring 2015 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Hepatitis B Foundation Recruits World-Class Scientists
- Hepatitis B Virus Turns 50!
- Hollywood Ending for International HBV Meeting
- Dr. Eugene Schiff Receives 2015 Blumberg Prize
- Princeton Workshop Focuses on Liver Cancer
- When Ignorance Is Not Bliss
- WHO Issues New HBV Guidelines
Fall 2014 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Making Hepatitis B History: Research at the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
- Hep B United’s 2nd Annual Summit
- WHO Invites HBF to Help Develop Their HBV Management Guidelines
- HBF’s Haimen City Project in China a Success
- Public Health Popularity Contest
- Africa’s Growing Hepatitis B Crisis
Spring 2014 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Hepatitis B and Liver Transplantation
- In Memory of Arline Loh
- International HBV Meeting Highlights
- Hep B United Rolls Out National Plan
- Dr. Thomas Starzl Receives HBF Blumberg Prize
- Liver Cancer Killed My Sister
Fall 2013 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Hepatitis B Foundation Research Institute Renamed in Honor of Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg
- HBF Awarded 3-Year Cooperative Agreement from CDC
- About "A Nobel Challenge"
- Cure Agenda at Princeton Workshop
- CHIPO: HBV and African Immigrants
- A Gay Man's Thoughts on HBV
Spring 2013 Issue
Highlights Include:
- U.S. Dept. of Justice Strikes Down HBV Discrimination
- Targeting cccDNA Could Be Game Changer
- Hep B United Community Action Plan
- Indonesia's Hepatitis B Crisis
- Chronic Hepatitis B or C: Which is Worse?
Fall 2012 Issue
Highlights Include:
First Hep B United National Summit
CDC Updates HBV Recommendations for Healthcare Workers
Remembering Dr. R. Palmer Beasley
First B Informed Parent Conference
What Does the ACA Mean for the Hepatitis B Community?
Preventable Loss of An Older Brother
Spring 2012 Issue
Highlights Include:
- Hepatitis B Discrimination Alive and Well in the U.S.
- Dr. Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health of HHS, Honored at Crystal Ball
- New Recommendations for Chronic Hepatitis B in Pregnancy
- Natural Products Discovery Institute is Open for Business
- HBF Launches LiverCancerConnect.org to Help Patients