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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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PIEDs and Transmission Risks

The use of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) is growing. While reliable data about the number of people in the community who use them is hard to find, PIED…

Lung Cancer Screening Saves Lives

Hepatitis SA’s harm reduction peer services is encouraging clients and community members to consider lung cancer screening with the Australian government’s free lung screen program. Screening is a way of…
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Living with Hepatitis

China Deal on Potential Hep B Cure

Pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced that it has entered into an exclusive collaboration with the Hong Kong-based pharma company Sino Biopharmaceutical to sell in mainland China, a chronic ​hepatitis B…

10 Years of DAAs

Ten years ago, on 1 March 2016, Australia became the first country to publicly subsidise new direct-acting antiviral (DAA) hepatitis C treatments for the entire population, no matter their condition…
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In Our Library: May 2026 Highlights

The national hepatitis strategies, Viral Hepatitis Mapping Project reports, and more… Click on the images to access, or view all resources added in the last month Sixth national hepatitis C strategy 2025…

Elimination –Urgent Global Action Needed

Urgent scale-up of global action is needed if the world is to meet its target of eliminating viral hepatitis by 2030. This was the clear message from the World Health…
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Is it Safe to Ask AI for Health Advice?

People are increasingly relying on “AI” sources for health information, but is it safe to do so? Worldwide, one in four queries to ChatGPT are health related, while almost one…

In Our Library: AI and Health Information

Thinking of turning to AI for health advice? Stop and think again – before putting your health information online. In Australia there are a number of high quality, credible health…
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