HULOH Hepatos

Welcome to the HEPATOS pages!

Croatian Association of Treated and Ill with Hepatitis „Hepatos“ is a humanitarian, nongovernmental and nonpolitical organization founded in 2000 in Split with a primary goal of providing help to ill with hepatitis. "Hepatos" is the first association in the Republic of Croatia which works with people ill with hepatitis.

On our pages you can get activities and work information of these associations "Prometej" from Pula, “Hepatos Osijek” from Osijek, "Hepatos-Zagreb" from Zagreb and "Hepatos-Dubrovnik" from Dubrovnik.

Association news:

European Liver Patients Association featured in Journal of Hepatology

European associations of doctors and patients in the last few years cooperate better than ever. The best indicator is expressing honor to the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) and presenting aims and problems they are dealing with in the prestige medical gazette - Journal of Hepatology in December of 2009.Journal...

The premiere of Branko Ruzic's play “Blood Borne Enemy” in Sarajevo

The play 'Sto mi moze virus?' (int. title Blood Borne Enemy) premiered 14/01 2010 in the Chamber Theatre in Sarajevo, aiming at drawing attention of Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina public's attention to the problem of hepatitis.The play is one of our ways we're trying to get closer to youth entering risk...

The first preparatory meeting for the European Partnership for Action Against Cancer

The president of Hepatos, as representative of ELPA and EASL participated in The first preparatory meeting for the European Partnership for Action Against Cancer (EPAAC), held 7-8 December 2009 in Brussels. 111 participants attended the meeting from various institutions and roof organizations across the Europe.The meeting was opened by the...

Strengthening capacity of associations dealing with viral hepatitis problems

Within the project „Building capacity of the CATIH”, on the 5th and 6th of December 2009 in Info-area spaces in Split was held a two days workshop with thematic management of projects and programs in non profit sector for CATIH members, supervised by Željana Buntić-Pejaković.In workshop were participants of following...

Croatian Association of Treated and Ill with Hepatitis (CATIH) make stronger for two more associations

On Saturday 5th of December 2009 in Split was held an election convention of CATIH where one more mandate was confirmed for current persons authorised for representation of the association with election of new members in supervisory board and steering board of the association.Besides that, the association has become...

„What can virus do to me” -- answering questions of schoolchildren of elementary schools and high schools from Split-Dalmatia County.

„What can virus do to me” -- answering questions of schoolchildren of elementary schools and high schools from Split-Dalmatia County.After the successful premiere and positive reviews, the play “What can virus do to me?” is starting to show in elementary and high schools of Split-Dalmatia County. Show was so far...

Marking of the Month of Fight against Addictions 15th of November to 15th of December

This year, as well, in accordance with the National Strategy on fight against illicit narcotics 2006 – 2012, Action Plan of Fight against Illicit narcotics 2009 – 2012 as well as Implementation program of Action Plan of fight against illicit narcotics for 2009, through various activities we will participate in...

Info-hep center on the field in November

Project „With available service to happy community: Info-hep center on war affected areas in Zadar County“, which is carrying out with financial contribution from PSGO, is gradually coming to an end, according to the project plan and planned activities.At the beginning of November, 03/11/2009, in multimedia hall of the city...

Questions and answers on the CHMP review of the recommendations on the use of pandemic H1N1 vaccines

Through our umbrella association ELPA, we are asked to forward this news to our membersThe European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has published updated information on the use of pandemic H1N1 vaccines, which can be found under the following web page: http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/pandemicinfluenza/66680909en.pdf The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) at...

FibroScan® - the non invasive liver diagnosis device at 6th Croatian Congress on Infective Diseases

FibroScan®, is a medical instrument which during the 5-minute examination completely painlessly measured elasticity and a degree of liver damage. It was presented at the 6th International Croatian Congress on Infective Diseases in Sibenik 24-27 of October 2009.The presentation was organized by CATIH Hepatos and the Section for Viral Hepatitis...