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The Victorian Hepatitis B Strategy 2016-2020 identifies people from a refugee background and people seeking asylum as a priority group as they may be unvaccinated.

ASHM have developed this resource to provide information about how Primary Health Care Nurses in the general practice and other settings can incorporate hepatitis B care into their existing role.  The resource supports the testing, diagnosis and management of people with chronic hepat

The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, in partnership with St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Melbourne Primary Care Network has developed a short video that demonstrates the use of Teach Back in a Hepatitis B context. Teach back is a technique clinicians can use with clients to re

The Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) has a new booklet to give interpreters working in health care settings a general understanding of HIV, hepatitis B and C. Click below to access the resource, or order printed copies of the resource online.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the world’s most common infectious diseases. Unfortunately, HBV often goes undetected in the Victorian population. Studies show that people from refugee backgrounds (and all overseas-born Australians) are at high risk of under-detected HBV infection i