With strong public debate continuing, Hepatitis Australia has recently lodged a submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee on the My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018. You can download a copy of that submission here.

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’.