Thousands of Australians developing serious liver complications from untreated hepatitis B could have their lives transformed if robust screening and follow-up – which is showing early signs of success in the Northern Territory – was rolled out nationally.

The Australian Government will help improve the lives of those living with diabetes and hepatitis C by making two treatments more affordable, helping patients save thousands of dollars a year.

The number of Australians receiving breakthrough antiviral therapy to cure hepatitis C has sharply declined, prompting urgent appeals for more Australians living with the virus to come forward to be cured.

Every year before the new cures became available more and more Australians were dying from hepatitis C.  Since 2016 the tens of thousands who have been cured are living longer, more productive, happier and healthier lives in ‘The Lucky Country’. 

OTTAWA - The federal prison service plans to introduce needle exchange programs in a bid to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases among inmates.

Hepatitis Australia is very disappointed the Government has chosen not to act to allocate funds in the budget to arrest the decline in hepatitis C treatment. The fall in treatment initiations has been evident for over six months and is putting the Minister’s stated goal of eliminating hepatitis C by 2030 in jeopardy.