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Paint and Learn

Hepatitis SA educators are offering Paint and Learn sessions where participants have fun painting on canvases as they learn and chat about viral hepatitis and blood borne viruses. This approach…

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The over‑50s are most likely to overdose. Here’s how older people use drugs

Latest figures from the Pennington Institute show that older Australians make up the highest proportion of unintentional overdose deaths.

Australia’s Deadliest Year of Drug Overdoses

New data from the Penington Institute has revealed that 2,272 Australians died of drug-induced deaths in 2023, with the rate of unintentional overdoses increasing to nearly 80 per cent. On average,…
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Living with Hepatitis

Hepatitis C & Overactive Bladder

There is a significant association between living with the hepatitis C virus and suffering from overactive bladder syndrome (OAB), according to a study published in the journal BMC Urology. The bladder has a…

New Free Hepatitis C Telehealth Service

A new national hepatitis C telehealth service is making it easier for people to get assessed, tested and treated for hepatitis C in Australia. Launched in June by Hepatitis Australia,…
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Policies & Research

Results on New Hep B Drug: How good is it?

Pharmaceutical giant, GSK, who seem to be leading the field in developing a hepatitis B functional cure, has finally presented the results on their new drug, bepirovirsen. The 254 million…

4474 Lives Saved, But Targets Will Not Be Met

Powerful new data from the 2024 annual report for Measuring the progress towards the targets of the National Hepatitis B Strategy (launched by The Peter Doherty Institute at the end…
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In Our Library: June 2026 Highlights

Hepatitis B surveillance, adult hepatitis B vaccination, viral hepatitis and liver cancer, and more… Click on the images to access or view all resources added in the last month. Surveillance for hepatitis…

Hep B Functional Cure – a plain language explainer

There has been a lot of talk about a functional cure for hepatitis B. What exactly does that mean? And how does that affect someone who’s living with chronic hepatitis…
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