O-21 EVIDENCE OF SUBOPTIMAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES ON HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN THE AMERICAS: A HUGE DEBT OF OUR REGION Luis Antonio Díaz; Gustavo Ayares; Francisco Idalsoaga; Jorge Arnold; Blanca Norero; Oscar Corsi; Gonzalo Pizarro; Sergio García; Eduardo Fuentes-López; Edmundo Martinez; Patricia Guerra Salazar; Roberta C. Araújo; Mario Reis Alvares-Da-Silva; Florencia D. Pollarsky; Nelia Hernandez; Juan Carlos Restrepo; Mirtha Infante; Enrique Carrera; Abel Sanchez; Marcos Girala; Martín Padilla; Javier Díaz; Martín Tagle; Melisa Dirchwolf; Manuel Mendizabal; Mariana Lazo; Catterina Ferreccio; Thomas G. Cotter; Mayur Brahmania; Nahum Méndez-Sánchez; Juan Pablo Roblero; Winston Dunn; Patrick S. Kamath; Ashwani K. Singal; Ramón Bataller; Marco Arrese; Juan Pablo Arab;

O- 23 STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION IN THE AMERICAS Luis Antonio Díaz; Sergio García; Rayan Khan; Gustavo Ayares; Javier Uribe; Francisco Idalsoaga; José Miguel Fuentealba; Eduardo Fuentes; Katherine Maldonado; Mariana Lazo; Catterina Ferreccio; Manuel Mendizabal; Melisa Dirchwolf; Patricia Guerra; Claudia P. Oliveira; Mario Guimarães; Mario Reis; Giada Sebastiani; Mayur Brahmania; Alnoor Ramji; Mina Niazi; Hin Hin Ko; Jordan Feld; Juan Carlos Restrepo; Wagner Ramírez; Omar Alfaro; Marlen Castellanos-Fernández; Enrique Carrera; José Roberto Aguirre Ayala; Abel Sánchez; Marco Sánchez; María Teresa Andara; Graciela Castro; Norberto Chavez-Tapia; Nahum Mendez-Sanchez; Enrique Adames; Julissa Lombardo; Marcos Girala; Elías Morán; Martin Padilla-Machaca; Javier Díaz; Martín Tagle; Victoria Mainardi; Nelia Hernandez; Edmundo Martínez; Edilmar Alvarado-Tapias; Roberto Leon; Andrew Talal; Emmanuel Thomas; Sandra Springer; Mauricio Garcia-Saenz-de-Sicilia; Wei Zhang; Jasmohan Bajaj; Elliot B. Tapper; Manhal J. Izzy; Robert G. Gish; Bashar Attar; Thomas G. Cotter; Michael R. Lucey; Patrick S. Kamath; Ashwani K. Singal; Ramón Bataller; Gabriel Mezzano; Alejandro Soza; Jeffrey V. Lazarus; Marco Arrese; Juan Pablo Arab;

O-11 THE PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES REDUCE THE LONG-TERM BURDEN OF ALCOHOL-ASSOCIATED LIVER DISEASE WORLDWIDE: DEVELOPMENT OF A PREPAREDNESS INDEX Luis Antonio Díaz; Eduardo Fuentes-López; Francisco Idalsoaga; Jorge Arnold; Gustavo Ayares; Macarena Cannistra; Danae Vio; Andrea Márquez-Lomas; Oscar Corsi; Carolina A. Ramírez; María Paz Medel; Catterina Ferreccio; Mariana Lazo; Juan Pablo Roblero; Thomas Cotter; Anand V. Kulkarni; Won Kim; Mayur Brahmania; Alexandre Louvet; Elliot Tapper; Winston Dunn; Douglas Simonetto; Vijay Shah; Patrick Kamath; Jeffrey V. Lazarus; Ashwani K. Singal; Ramon Bataller; Marco Arrese; Juan Pablo Arab;