Community

Why the Hepatitis B Birth Dose Matters

Hepatitis B vaccination within the first 24 hours has been part of Australia’s National Immunisation Program for 25 years, helping to reduce hepatitis B in the Australian population.

Community Leaders Share Concerns About Hepatitis B and the Law

Hepatitis B is Australia’s most prevalent blood-borne virus, with nearly 220,000 people estimated to be living with chronic infection. In a recent report called ‘If Hepatitis was 100 People’, Hepatitis …

Tasmania to pilot national hepatitis C awareness campaign

The Australian Government is funding a new hepatitis C awareness campaign to be piloted in Tasmania, as part of national efforts to identify and treat people who may be living with the …

Spreading the Word about Hepatitis B and D

Adrian Hicks wants to shout out to the world: If you have hepatitis B, don’t ignore it… do something, your life may depend on it! Adrian lives with not one …

While We Wait for a Hepatitis B Cure – Screen More, Treat More, Treat Earlier

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is notoriously hard to get rid of. The virus embeds its covalently closed circular DNA (the cccDNA) in the liver, integrating itself into the host …

On the Ground – Great New Location for Uniting Communities U City NSP

Uniting Communities, its partner agencies and supporters celebrated the opening of a new ground floor space within the U City on Franklin Street.

High Hep C Cure Rate Among NSP Clients

Findings from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) Survey 30-year National Data Report shows highly significant reductions in hepatitis C infections and high levels of treatment and cure among …

Hepatitis B and C: A call to action for nurses and midwives

By Mieken Grant, originally published in the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, and reprinted with permission. In Australia, just under 300,000 people live with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C, …

WHD2025 in South Australia

This year, the aim for World Hepatitis Day in Australia was to mobilise efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis by the WHO’s 2030 target. The month around World Hepatitis Day was …

Progress on Closing the Gap is stagnant or going backwards. Here are 3 things to help fix it

The Productivity Commission’s latest data on Closing the Gap progress represents an unsurprisingly grim overview of the socioeconomic inequalities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

SA Nurses Say Get Tested

Flinders Medical Centre hepatology nurses are urging people to get tested for viral hepatitis. Throwing their support behind Hepatitis SA’s World Hepatitis Day green T-shirts activity, the nurses have put …

National Reconciliation Week – a Summary

National Reconciliation Week ends today and here’s a quick wrap of what we found in the– mostly public broadcast – media. Click on the items to read, watch or listen …

Pat Dodson Urges PM to Act on Reconciliation

Former Labor senator Pat Dodson, sometimes called ‘the Father of Reconciliation’, has emerged from a self-imposed silence to urge the prime minister to take up the cause once more with …

National Reconciliation Week 2025: Bridging Now to Next

How to strengthen relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples.