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Managing Chronic Hepatitis B – Advice for GPs (SHINE SA video)

In Aboriginal Health, Crime and law, Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, Hepatitis, LGBTIQ+ issues, Multicultural communities, People Who Inject Drugs / AOD, Safer sex, Sexual, gendered & partner violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), SHINE SA news & events

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SHINE SA, July 2017 Today, July 28th, is World Hepatitis Day. There are no ‘healthy carriers’ of hepatitis B! SA Health & SHINE SA are promoting a 6-minute video providing advice for general practitioners in diagnosing, managing and contact tracing patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), to assist in preventing serious liver disease. It is now known that people who were...

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Rising Death Toll from Viral Hepatitis in Australia

By J Pope

In Hepatitis

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Hepatitis NSW, September 2015 On 14 September, the Kirby Institute released the HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: Annual Surveillance Report 2015. And it made for particularly sobering reading. It is estimated that 690 people died from hepatitis C-related liver disease in 2014, which represents an increase of 146% from ten years earlier. The number of people...

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