HNSW closing for the holidays

Our office and services will be closed from 1pm Dec 24 – January 1, re-opening January 2.

We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season.

A workshop to make hep C history

NSW aims to eliminate hepatitis C by 2028. Engage your communities, engage your clients and aim for 2028 eliminate!

These workshops are designed for people working in clinical and community sectors. Ideal for getting a solid update on new treatments with guest speakers from clinical services and local community to inform and inspire. Interactive elements during the day aim to strengthen local networks to better engage people into treatment and broaden prevention strategies.

At the end of the day you will be able to:

• Know the difference between hepatitis A, B and C
• Run activities for health promotion campaigns and group work in your service
• Discuss confidently the new hep C treatments “Direct Acting Antivirals”
• Navigate & build on local hep C testing and treatment pathways
• Describe national harm reduction strategies and map local prevention options
• Identify and address discriminatory barriers to health care.
• Support people making informed decisions around their hep C and starting treatment.
• Hear someone’s first-hand experience of hep C. BE INSPIRED!

Where: Room 3.11, 414 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills 2010

When: Friday January 31^st

Participants receive:

• A kit packed with activities and tools for your organisation or group.
• Statement of attendance
• Membership to Hepatitis NSW
• Subscriptions to Champion newsletter
• LUNCH!

For registration and learning outcomes, click here https://hep.eventbrite.com.au/

For more info, please contact Ruth on info@hep.org.au or 1800 803 990.

You are invited to attend the 28th Hepatitis NSW Annual General Meeting and our Audrey Lamb Community Forum which will be held:

6.00pm, Thursday, 28 November 2019
ACON Café
Ground Floor, 414 Elizabeth Street
Surry Hills NSW
(corner of Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets)

Guest of Honour & Keynote Speaker:

Dr Bob Batey
Senior Staff Specialist Physician in the Department of Medicine at Alice Springs Hospital
Forum Topic:
The complexity of hep B, and the ease of hep C cure Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP deadline: 5pm Thursday 21 November 2019

phone: 02 9332 1853
email: jgennery@hep.org.au

We have a stall at this year’s Knockout – we’ll be co-hosting it with SWOP and ACON.

Come say hi!

WHEN: Fri 4 Oct – Mon 7 Oct

WHERE: The 49th NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout will take place 4 to 7 October 2019 at the Central Coast Regional Sporting & Recreation Complex in Tuggerah, and is run by the Newcastle All Blacks team, who took out the title at last year’s event.

Click here for the Knockout website, or contact Kerry on hnsw@hep.org.au for more info.

Hepatitis NSW, Hepatitis B Free and KAMS invite doctors and health professionals to celebrate World Hepatitis Day

Our Hepatitis B Free Dinner will be held on Monday 22 July, in the lead up to the annual World Hepatitis Day on 28 July. Hepatitis NSW and Hepatitis B Free will talk about the work we have done and the work that still needs to be done, in NSW and beyond, to achieve a Hep B free world.

The dinner will be held at Burwood RSL Club, from 6:30 – 8:30pm

For more information, pease contact Mina on 8217 7721 or mkim@hep.org.au

Over 22,000 people in New South Wales have started treatment for, and been cured of, hepatitis C since 2016. While this is a great achievement for our community, it is estimated that a further 58,000 across the state are yet to seek treatment and cure. That number represents way more people than it would take to fill the Sydney Cricket Ground!

Thanks to groundbreaking medications, elimination of hepatitis C is now an achievable goal, but one which requires the combined efforts of government, the health sector, and community to be fully realised.

During Hepatitis Awareness Week (22 July – 28 July) and with World Hepatitis Day on 28 July, NSW Health and Hepatitis NSW are encouraging all people across the state who are living with hepatitis C, to take advantage of new easy-to-take and highly effective medications.

Have a look around our site for more information on hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

This year Hepatitis NSW, in collaboration with ACON, SWOP, NUAA, Positive Life and HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (halc) will be holding a NAIDOC event at our offices in Surry Hills.

Hosted by Nana Miss Koori

Wednesday 10 July
12pm – 2pm
ACON Cafe
Ground Floor, 414 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills

All welcome for FREE food, film and fun!

Elders from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are invited to participate in the games.

When: 
Wednesday 18 September
9:30 am – 2:00 pm

Where:
Mount Druitt PCYC
453A Luxford Rd
Lethbridge Park NSW 2770

FREE ENTRY AND LUNCH PROVIDED!

For more information and registration, contact Carol Muthunesan on 0438 966 619 or Carol.Muthunesan@health.nsw.gov.au 

Join NADA for the ‘Engaging Consumers: Tricky or Transformational?’ webinar.

In partnership with the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD), NADA is hosting this exciting event. Well respected consumer advocate and OA recipient Annie Madden will join other presenters with lived experience in this interactive and thought-provoking event. They will delve into the role of language, consumers and research and hear consumers experiences of engagement.

Date: Thursday, June 13, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM AEST
Where: Online – wherever you have internet

Click here to register now on the NADA website.

Red Carpet Event & Screening of Uniting’s Fair Treatment Campaign Documentary

Half a Million Steps
View the trailer here

When:
Thursday 13 June 2019
6 pm arrival for 7 pm screening

Where:
Palace Chauvel Cinema
249 Oxford Street
Paddington
Semi-Formal attire suggested

Please RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/SydneyPremiere