News - Menzies

MEDIA RELEASE | Leading Northern Territory program triples liver cancer survival rates for Aboriginal Territorians

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December 15, 2025 - 10:00am

AMSANT and Menzies say a Territory-designed hepatitis B program (Hep B PAST) is showing evidence of transforming liver cancer outcomes for Aboriginal people - with survival rates now three times higher than in the mid-2000s.
MEDIA RELEASE | Landmark study reveals hepatitis B risks for First Nations people in the NT

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July 14, 2025 - 09:00am

Menzies has led the largest-ever study of people living with a unique strain of chronic hepatitis B (C4 hepatitis B) – which predominately affects First Nations Australians in the NT – uncovering significant impacts on liver health.
MEDIA RELEASE | Nationally recognised hepatitis B tool now available in 11 languages

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May 19, 2025 - 15:30pm

The Hep B Story App, a leading hepatitis B health education resource by Menzies is now available in 11 Aboriginal languages, with the recent addition of Wubuy and Murrinh Patha.
Innovative Models of Care (IMOC) Program – Hep B PAST PLUS

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July 12, 2024 - 11:00am

Menzies will deliver the Hep B PAST PLUS under the Innovative Models of Care Program to provide a co-designed approach to reducing liver disease in First Nations populations in northern Australia.
Hepatitis B DNA Helps Trace History and Movement of First Australians

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March 22, 2019 - 01:45am

The team found that hepatitis B virus isolated from these Aboriginal Australians is a unique strain called HBV/C4, which is not found anywhere else in the world.
Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements into Australia

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March 19, 2019 - 00:15am

Australian researchers have used current hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome sequences to deduce ancient human population movements into Australia, adding weight to the theory that the mainland Aboriginal population separated from other early humans at least 59 thousand years ago and possibly entered the country near the Tiwi Islands.
Chronic hepatitis B elimination partnership launched

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September 10, 2018 - 10:00am

A collaboration working to eliminate chronic hepatitis B (CHB) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Northern Territory (NT) is being launched by NT Health Minister the Hon Natasha Fyles.
Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities

Date

July 26, 2018 - 12:00pm

Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
ABC online | Elcho Island researchers bound for Alaska

Date

August 02, 2017 - 10:18am

Three community-based researchers from Elcho Island working with Menzies School of Health Research are bound for Alaska to present at an international viral hepatitis conference.

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