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Hep B Past Bulletin | Issue 3
Welcome to Issue 3 of the Hep B PAST Bulletin,
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MEDIA RELEASE | Crucial tool to assist in the elimination of Chronic Hepatitis B launched
An educational app designed to improve health literacy around the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been translated to provide more than 70 per cent of the Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal population access in their first language.
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Hep B Past Bulletin | Issue 2
Welcome to Issue 2 of the Hep B PAST Bulletin.
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NT News | High rates of hepatitis B among NT Indigenous people
The prevalence of chronic hepatitis B in the Northern Territory has been vastly underestimated with Indigenous residents nearly five times more likely to have the disease, according to new research.
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Hep B Past Bulletin | Issue 1
Welcome to the first official Hep B PAST Bulletin.
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$5.6m on health research
Health Minister Greg Hunt Says Federal Government will invest $5.6 million in the NT for medical research.
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NT News | Funds for critical health issue studies
Report on Menzies NHMRC and MRFF Investigator grants.
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Five medical research projects recognised in the Northern Territory
Five researchers based at Menzies have received recognition in the form of Investigator Grants from the NHMRC and the MRFF.
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$400 million funding boost for health and medical research
Including Menzies School of Health Research work towards the elimination of chronic hepatitis B in the Northern Territory.
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Innovative data use an important step in eliminating hep B
A team of researchers in the Northern Territory (NT) have designed and tested a new algorithm to determine hepatitis B status.
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Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre supports new phone App
Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin are making a new phone app about Hepatitis B in Kunwinjku language with help from the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre.
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CAAMA Podcast | Strong Voices Monday 25/09/2019
Australian researchers have used current Hepatitis B virus genome sequences to map the movement of Aboriginal people into Australia. A senior research fellow at the Menzies school of health research discusses the research paper.
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Hepatitis B DNA Helps Trace History and Movement of First Australians
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.
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Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements
LongRoom News | Australian researchers have used current hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome sequences to deduce ancient human population movements into Australia.
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Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements
LongRoom News | Australian researchers have used current hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome sequences to deduce ancient human population movements into Australia.
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Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements into Australia
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.
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NT News | Hope to eradicate chronic Hep B
NT News | Hope to eradicate chronic Hep B
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Chronic hepatitis B elimination partnership launched
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.
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Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
Menzies is doing its part to ensure more Indigenous Territorians have access to potentially life-saving information about hepatitis B this World Hepatitis Day.
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Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
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Researchers go north to Alaska
A team of community-based researchers from Elcho Island made the long journey to Anchorage, Alaska to present their work at the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Viral Hepatitis in August. For the three Indigenous researchers - Sarah...
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Chronic hepatitis B to be eliminated from NT | Katherine Times
An important collaboration which will work to eliminate chronic hepatitis B from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the NT has been established.
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Chronic hepatitis B to be eliminated from the Northern Territory
An important collaboration which will work to eliminate chronic hepatitis B (CHB) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Northern Territory (NT) has been established.
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Scullion hails Indigenous health funding
NT Senator Nigel Scullion - "funding continues the Coalition Government's strong commitment to supporting the best health and medical research."
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Indigenous Funding Boost | NT News
Menzies will use NHMRC funding to boost health outcomes of Indigenous Australians through two projects.
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CRANAplus magazine | Alaska trip highlights global problem
It took a trip halfway around the world for Galiwin'ku researchers to be reminded that all Indigenous peoples face challenges of viral hepatitis.
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Researchers at World Conference
Community-based researchers Sarah Bukulatjpi, George Gurruwiwi and Roslyn Dhurrkay, from Galiwin'ku in the Northern Territory, recently spoke on viral hepatitis at the World Indigenous Peoples' Conference in Anchorage.
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CRANAplus magazine | From Elcho to Alaska
A team of community-based researchers from Elcho Island, made the long journey to Anchorage to present at a conference.
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ABC online | Elcho Island researchers bound for Alaska
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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Elcho Island community researchers Alaska-bound
Three community-based researchers from Elcho Island working with Menzies School of Health Research are bound for Alaska to present at an international Indigenous viral hepatitis conference.
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Severe hep B strain afflicts indigenous population
INDIGENOUS Territorians with hepatitis B suffer from an aggressive strain of the virus not found anywhere else in the world, researchers from Menzies School of Health Research have found.
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Research reveals alarmingly high rates of the world’s second most deadly cancer in the NT
A new study conducted by Menzies has found a very high prevalence of liver cancer in the NT.
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New app to improve treatment of Hepatitis B in remote Indigenous communities
The launch of a new iPad app is hoping to address the prevalence and severity of Hepatitis B infections in remote Indigenous communities.