Egypt holds on to WHO gold tier status on the path to eliminating hepatitis C

15 October 2026

The World Health Organization has confirmed that Egypt remains the first country to hold gold tier status on the path to elimination of hepatitis C, after an assessment of its progress between 2023 and 2025. WHO first granted Egypt that status, stating that Egypt had become the first country to achieve gold tier status on the path to elimination of hepatitis C as per WHO criteria. Achieving the gold tier means a country has fulfilled the programmatic requirements that reduce new hepatitis C infections and deaths to levels that position it to end the epidemic. Egypt reduced the prevalence of hepatitis C from 10 percent to 0.38 percent in just over a decade. Its 100 million seha, or 100 million healthy lives, campaign resulted in the testing of over 60 million people and treatment of more than 4.1 million people, with a 99 percent cure rate among those treated. Locally manufactured direct-acting antiviral treatments were a key factor. Egypt established the National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis in 2006 to lead the national response.