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2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JANUARY 2015 VOL. 19, ISSUE 4 Editors: J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, Christina Surawicz Managing editors: Marissa Lopez and Elisabeth Vink Art Production: Jennifer Gubbin Editorial Office: WGO Executive Secretariat, 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA Email: info@worldgastroenterology.org e-WGN Editorial Board • Anita Afzali, USA • Minhu Chen, China • Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Abdel Meguid Kassem, Egypt • René Lambert, France • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Christoffel Johannes van Rensburg, South Africa • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal • Michael Schultz, New Zealand • Ala Sharara, Lebanon • Catherine Wendy Spearman, South Africa • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Miguel A. Valdovinos, Mexico • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Marcelo F. Vela, USA ©2015 World Gastroenterology Organisation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Contents Editorial Message from the Editors of e-WGN 1 J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Expert Point of View Outcomes and Treatments of Dual Chronic Hepatitis B and C 4 Chun-Jen Liu, MD, PhD HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV Co-infection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Transmission, Disease Outcomes, and Treatment Options 7 Mark W. Sonderup, MD C. Wendy Spearman, MD Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO G20 Done. Brisbane Gets Ready for G15! 10 WDHD News Summary of our World Digestive Health Day Event, “Human Gut Microbiota in Health & Disease” 13 Brigita Smolović, PhD Gut Microbiota is Booming in GI Congress of China 15 Ye Chen, MD, PhD Yunsheng Yang, Professor and MD WGO & WGOF News Global Efforts to Advance Gastroenterology Earns Henry Cohen, MD, FACG the 2014 ACG International Leadership Award 17 Taiwan Digestive Diseases Week 2014 19 20th Anniversary United Russian Gastroenterology Week 22 Vladimir Ivashkin, MD, PhD Arkady Sheptulin, MD, PhD European Finest at UEG Week Vienna 2014 25 Joost PH Drenth, MD, PhD Train the Trainers: Cape Town, South Africa, August-September, 2014 27 Tauseef Ali, MD, FACP, FACG WGO Global Guidelines FIP-WGO Joint Session: Coping with Common Gastrointestinal Symptoms in the Community 29 Varocha Mahachai, MD, FRCPC, FACG, AGAF Calendar of Events WGO Calendar of Events 31


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