The WHA is a global member network of over 320 civil society organisations in 101 countries representing over 350 million people living with viral hepatitis around the world. Our mission is to harness the power of people living with viral hepatitis to achieve its elimination. We are led and governed by people with lived experience of hepatitis, ensuring they are at the heart of everything we do. Founded in 2007, WHA advocate at global, regional and national levels to keep hepatitis on top of the health agenda and deliver programmes and campaigns that change policies, raise awareness, break barriers, mobilise resources, influence decision-makers and build the capacity of civil society. We raise the voices of the people and communities affected by viral hepatitis to demand urgent action to tackle the barriers to elimination of viral hepatitis. WHA and our members were successful in making World Hepatitis Day an internationally-recognised global health day, and in 2016 our activities resulted in viral hepatitis finally being recognised as a global priority, when 194 governments pledged to its elimination by 2030 in the Sustainable Development Goals. WHA were also successful in ensuring hepatitis was included in the UN political declaration on Universal Health Coverage. We continue to work tirelessly to ensure civil society is at the heart of the hepatitis response, to hold countries to the promise of elimination, to raise awareness, tackle the barriers to hepatitis elimination and to support civil society at a global, national and local level.