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HEP VOICE Magazine - October - December 2023
Kelly Hosking of Menzies School of Health Research shares an insight about the Hep B PAST Program with the World Hepatitis Alliance online magazine.
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MEDIA RELEASE | Hep B program highlights expertise as CDU Menzies School of Medicine seeks more student placements in the NT
The CDU Menzies School of Medicine continues its momentum to advocate for the Australian Government to allocate 40 new placements for medical students in the Northern Territory.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.