Tag: Hepatitis B

UK Shows the Power of Opt-Out Testing

Thousands of Britons have been found to have been living with previously undiagnosed hepatitis and HIV under a new testing system recently introduced in accident and emergency departments by the …

Pig-to-Human Liver Transplant Shows Mixed Success

Part of a liver from a genetically engineered pig has been transplanted into a living human recipient, who then survived a further six months before dying from repeated upper gastrointestinal …

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 …

My Health Record: BBV results now recorded by default

Recent changes to the processing of pathology reports for My Health Record has elevated the importance of pre-test counselling around implications of test results, where to go for further information, …

Birth-Dose Vaccination Crucial to Prevention of Chronic Hepatitis B in Children

Hepatitis Australia and ASHM have released a statement reminding all Australians of the importance of hepatitis B vaccinations to protect the health and wellbeing of children. The statement pointed out …

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, …

Cutting Out Hep B with ‘Molecular Scissors’

A genetic peculiarity that is sometimes found in biochemistry is ‘covalently closed circular DNA‘ (cccDNA), where the DNA molecule, instead of being a long, ribbon-like strand, becomes a closed loop. …

How Hep B Research Helped when COVID-19 Hit

As the coronavirus spread globally in 2020, and people all around the world began to be uncomfortably familiar with RAT tests and PCR tests, NSW historian Michelle Bootcov realised her …

Improving Surveillance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Australia

The incidence of primary liver cancer in Australia has quadrupled since 1982—faster than any other cancer. Yet, the 5-year survival remains just 22%, in stark contrast to countries like Japan, …

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 …

In Our Library: Liver cancer and other hepatitis-related conditions

This World Hepatitis Day we are focussing on testing. Early detection of viral hepatitis is vital to prevent avoidable deaths, like those caused by liver cancer.  Hepatitis B increases liver cancer risk by …

World Hepatitis Day 2025 – It’s Time for Action: Testing Saves Lives

In Australia, there are two diseases which, together, kill nearly 1000 people every year. They affect close to 300,000 people and are also the leading causes of rising liver cancer …

Experimental Hep B Treatments: Good & Bad News

Two different experimental hepatitis B virus (HBV) treatments have shown very different results in their phase 2 trials in recent weeks. One, while initially promising, has failed to show high …

Transforming Hepatitis B Care: WHO Takes the Lead

Momentum is growing to simplify and expand treatment criteria so that more people with chronic hepatitis B will be treated.

Beating Cancer Through Hepatitis Elimination

Despite having all the tools to combat liver cancer, a lack of prioritisation and action has resulted in an increase in mortality worldwide. These deaths are entirely preventable if people …

In Our Library: Highlights, April 2025

New titles added in April include: Hepatitis B and hepatitis C mapping reports, Close the Gap campaign annual report, Human Rights and drug policy report...

Can a Parent’s HBV Affect Their Newborn’s Heart?

Studies have shown a higher rate of congenital heart disease in infants born to parents with hepatitis B.

Viral Hepatitis Tests

Understanding the tests needed to diagnose viral hepatitis infection can be complex. This collection of resources in our library is suitable for community members and can assist with explaining tests …

Want to Get Tested? We’ll Come to Your Community

A lot of “thankyous” and laughter… not what you’d normally see in a testing clinic but that was the experience at two liver health check clinics Hepatitis SA held recently. …

Call for Universal Hepatitis B Testing to Stop the Rise in Liver Cancer Deaths

Hepatitis SA is backing Hepatitis Australia’s call for universal hepatitis B (HBV) testing, after new data confirmed the silent role of chronic hepatitis B in Australia’s rising liver cancer deaths, …

In Our Library: Highlights, February 2025

Click on each resource to access it, or view all resources added in the last month. Shared experience makes this all possible: documenting the guiding principles of peer-led services for people released …

Knocking out Hepatitis B, C and D

Hepatitis B, C and D rely on a common factor for replication. This could be used to develop a cure for all three viruses.
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First Hepatitis B Rapid Testing in SA

After a long wait, hepatitis B point-of-care testing finally made its appearance at a community testing event in Adelaide. Hepatitis SA launched the first hepatitis B rapid testing clinic in …

Empowering Change, Reducing Stigma

Much has been said about the stigma around sexually transmitted infections (STI) and blood-borne-viruses (BBV). If you work with people living with HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C, you would …