Hepatitis ACT

Been putting off getting tested or treated for hepatitis C?

You don't need a referral. You don't need to travel. And you don't have to figure it out on your own.

☎️ HepLink's free telehealth service can help you:
• Get a pathology request for hepatitis C testing
• Access treatment if you need it
• Check that you're cured after treatment

All through a phone or video appointment, bulk billed through Medicare.

📞 Call 1800 437 222
🔗 Or head to HepLink: https://www.heplink.au/book_telehealth

Hepatitis C is curable, taking the first step might be easier than you think.

Affected by fatty liver disease? We want to hear from you!

If you have been diagnosed with Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD - the most common type of fatty liver disease), or care for someone who has, we’d like to understand your experience.

MASLD can progress to more serious liver disease and can be an early warning sign of serious conditions including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.

Today is Global Fatty Liver Day (11 June), and we are launching a new survey to better understand:

• How the disease was first detected
• The information and support received
• What you think policy makers need to know

Your insights will directly shape LiverWELL's work for Australians living with MASLD.

Take the survey: https://liverwell.org.au/get-involved/masld-survey/

About the name: MASLD is also known as MAFLD (Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease) and was previously called NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). We use the term MASLD to refer to this disease.

Learning never stops and neither do we.

Last week our registered nurse Joe headed to the Next Gen Nurse Practitioners conference to learn what's happening in healthcare around Australia and bring those ideas back to the ACT.

✔️ Heard from health leaders from across the country
✔️ Connected with other healthcare professionals
✔️ Introduced a session on liver health and viral hepatitis
✔️ Picked up new ideas to help support our community

📸 Joe with conference organiser Darren Smyth

Make sure to stop past before 5pm today as we will be closed this Monday for the King’s Birthday public holiday 👑

Things to visit us for?
• Stock up from the NSP
• Chat with our peer team
• Drop in for your hep test
• Speak to a clinician

We will see you back at 9am Tuesday morning.

🚨 We're baaacckkkk... and we've had an upgrade! 👀

Our Outreach Services Calendar is now LIVE and updating in real time! 🙌

Want to know where we'll be next for:
💙 Hep testing
💙 Education
💙 Community outreach events

Now you can see our latest locations and updates as they happen.

Finding us just got a whole lot easier.

https://hepatitisact.org.au/our-programs/outreach-services-2

Outreach Services - Hepatitis ACT Our Outreach Services take free hepatitis C testing, point-of-care testing (POCT), and accurate health education directly into the community, meeting people where they are. This monthly schedule shows where our team will be each day, so you can find us in locations that may be easier to access than....

30 years of advocacy. 30 years of community. 30 years of making a difference.

We're incredibly grateful to Canberra Daily for helping share the story behind Hepatitis ACT's 30-year journey and shining a light on the realities of viral hepatitis in our community.

The article explores who viral hepatitis affects, why stigma remains a barrier to care, and the work still needed to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.

Most importantly, it reminds us that viral hepatitis can affect anyone and that awareness, testing, treatment, and community support all play a role in getting people the care they need.

Hepatitis ACT turns 30 | Canberra Daily 31 per cent of people with hepatitis are undiagnosed. Hepatitis ACT, which turns 30 this year, urges the public to get tested.

Make sure to stop past before 5pm today as we will be closed this Monday for Reconciliation Day. 🖤💛❤️

Things to visit us for?
• Stock up from the NSP
• Chat with our peer team
• Drop in for your hep test
• Speak to a clinician

If you’re out and about this Reconciliation Day, Canberra’s community celebrations are also taking place throughout the day - a chance to come together, reflect, learn, and celebrate First Nations cultures and communities.

A big event happening:
👉John Dunmore Lang Place, near Reconciliation Place and Questacon in Parkes
🗓1 June 2026.
🕗between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm for a free, family-friendly event.

We will see you back at 9am Tuesday 2 June.

One of the ways we are showing up during National Reconciliation Week is by attending events that create space for learning, reflection, and meaningful conversations around cultural safety. 🖤💛❤️

This week, we attended ACTCOSS - ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (Voiced Across Generations) event, hosted alongside The Gulanga Program.

The event brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and community workers to share knowledge and practical ways we can continue creating safer, more culturally responsive services and workplaces.

Hepatitis ACT Peer Worker, Bryce stated - “Lots of learning and growth came from this event. It was great to hear from such long standing voices such as Uncle Keith Brandy and Selina Walker. It was Tahalianna Soward who stole the show for me and her emerging voice in the First Nations community.”

Showing up in spaces like these is an important part of our ongoing commitment to listening, learning, and strengthening the way we support community across the ACT.

National Reconciliation Week is a time to learn about shared histories, cultures, and how we can all contribute to a more respectful and inclusive future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

This year’s theme, “All In”, reminds us that reconciliation requires all of us to listen, learn, and take action - which is why this week we are attending ACTCOSS - ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (Voiced Across Generations) event alongside community organisations across the ACT to learn from First Nations leaders and strengthen cultural safety in the way we support our community. 💛❤️🖤

To us, supporting reconciliation means more than one week - it is reflected in how we show up every day through respect, culturally safe healthcare, non-judgemental support, and our ongoing commitment to walking alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the ACT.

Reconciliation Australia

Yesterday, we gathered leaders from across the ACT's health, policy, research and community sectors to map our pathway to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat in the ACT by 2030.

Thank you to Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA, ACT Minister for Health, for opening the forum and reaffirming the ACT Government's commitment to elimination. Your leadership and partnership have been instrumental in bringing us to this point.

And thank you to everyone who showed up - clinicians, policymakers, peak bodies, researchers, community organisations, and people with lived experience. You spent the day doing the hard work: naming systemic barriers, identifying leverage points, and making commitments to collective action.

We left with a systems map showing how we all connect, and a roadmap built by the sector, for the sector.

30 years of advocacy. 10 years of hep C cure. 5 years to elimination.

More to come as we synthesise the day's work and share what we have built together.

Thank you to our strategic event partners: AbbVie Australia