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In Our Library: October 2025 Highlights

HepSA Library October acquisition highlights: HBV surveillance, managing hep B, hep D advances, and more…

HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections among people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia: enhanced surveillance report

Sydney, Kirby Institute, 2024. 96p

This enhanced report is the first to specifically endeavour to report on BBVs and STIs among people from CALD backgrounds in Australia.

Surveillance for hepatitis B indicators: tracking Australia’s progress towards hepatitis B elimination – national report 2023

Melbourne, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis and Doherty Institute, 2025. 49p.

Statistics for prevalence, diagnosis, engagement in care, treatment, deaths, and jurisdictional disparities.

Advances in the management of hepatitis B

London, BMJ Group, 2025. 17p.

Summarises the current landscape of hepatitis B, including epidemiology, disease progression, screening and diagnosis, and an in-depth evaluation of antiviral treatment strategies guided by randomized clinical trials and international consensus.

Updates on recent advancements in hepatitis D virus treatment

Basel, MDPI, 2025. 26p.

Provides updates on recent advancements in HDV treatment including novel therapies.

Hepatitis B and liver cancer

Adelaide, Cancer Council SA and Hepatitis SA, 2025. Video.

Brief information about hepatitis B, including transmission, symptoms, risk of liver cancer and vaccination. Available in: Arabic, Amharic, English, French, Kirundi, Tigrinya, Somali, Swahili.

Drug law reform: why decriminalisation isn’t a magic bullet (but we need it anyway)

Zurich, INHSU, 2025. Webpage.

Discusses the types of law reform that have been implemented globally and how they compare to an ideal model of decriminalisation which not only delivers improved health outcomes but corrects the long-standing injustice of the criminalisation of people who use drugs.

To view the full list of newly added titles, go to the library home page.

Last updated 4 December 2025

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