Tx! MAG #28 by HepatitisNSW

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Welcome to Tx! Mag #28 - a special edition funded as part of the Youth At Risk program - a youth-focused hep C prevention program, now finished, run by Hepatitis NSW. Youth at Risk helped youth workers to engage young people around issues of injecting drug use and hep C. The Youth at Risk training package was developed as a partnership between the HIV and Related Programs Unit and Youth Health Program of South East Sydney Local Health District. This issue has stories that look at two groups of young people out to have a fun time... but have they thought about the risk of hep C? In A Fine Line, Morgan and her school friends get a group tattoo from the local artist "Tattoo Guy". Even though he seems like he's running a clean shop from his garage there's a surprise waiting for them in the ink. Not Again sees Blake starting treatment for hep C on the eve of his 21st birthday. He's keen to make sure that he and his girlfriend and friends have a safe celebration - that there's no risk of hep C transmission - even if his two best mates can't see what all the fuss is about. Also, check out our puzzles and don't forget to send in the survey form for a chance to win a $100 voucher. Cheers! Grace Tx! Mag Ed Aside from Hepatitis NSW editorial content, views expressed in this magazine or flyers enclosed with it are not necessarily those of Hepatitis NSW or the organisations with whom we collaborate. Neither are such views necessarily those of our funding bodies. Tx! Mag does not promote or condone the use of illicit drugs. Rather, it seeks to provide accurate information that will help people who already use drugs to reduce risks and make safer choices. Nothing in this magazine should be taken as recommending drug use.

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EDITOR/DESIGNER Grace Crowley EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Tim Baxter Ben Cork Paul Harvey Sonam Paljor Lucy Pepolim Kate Pinnock Rhea Shortus Thomas Wright SPECIAL THANKS Kyle Leadbeatter Simone Strasser Greg Dore Jacob George STORY WRITERS Lawrence Gergich (A Fine Line) Charlie Foster (Never Again) COMIC ARTISTS James Brouwer (A Fine Line) Skye Ogden (Never Again) gestaltcomics.com

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HE Youth At Risk Project gave young people across NSW a great opportunity to flex their creative muscles... designing and then painting huge local murals that were not just stunning to look at but which also had important hep C prevention and cure messages for everyone in the area. Left: This eyecatching mural was painted by young people in far west NSW, at Wings, Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation. Below: Young people at the Blacktown Youth Services Association designed and then painted this massive public mural.

LOOKING FOR MORE TO READ? ALL PAST ISSUES ARE ONLINE AT: hep.org.au/tx-mag

TX! MAG #27 [HEP C]

Best Shot After 20 years with hep C, Lisa is excited to learn of new cures. Emad, less so. Livin' Doug takes on the challenges of life and hep C testing.

TX! MAG #24 [HEP C]

Change Of Plans Lola gets a tattoo in prison with a pre-used and unsterile needle... not much later she finds out she now has hep C too.

TX! MAG #26 [HEP B]

TX! MAG #25 [HEP C]

TRANSMISSION #23 [C]

TRANSMISSION #21 [C]

Can't "B" Happening Gina gets some surprise news from her ex-boyfriend. One Step At A Time Mick has to deal with a flare up in his hep B.

Need-To-Know Frank's in prison for three years – while he’s inside he struggles with indecision about whether to get himself tested for hep C or not.

Ch-ch-changes Sam and Clara have both been living with hep C for a long time. Sam has even tried interferon but without luck. Will the new treatments change all that for them?

The Way We Are Vic & Andy want to build a family together but it’s complicated by the difficulty Andy is having getting a job after being released from prison…

CROSSWORD 1 TARGET A O I B N R F S C

How many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters here? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the centre letter, and there must be at least one nine-letter word. No foreign words, no words with initial capitals and no hyphenated words.

ACROSS 1. Wet dirt; pigs are happy in it (3) 3. You breathe it (3) 5. A dolt, dope (3) 6. Drenched; covered in water (3) 8. A label on clothes; graffiti signature (3) 10. Smaller ocean (3) 12. A cave animals live in (3) 14. Central Intelligance Agency (1.1.1.) 15. Flying rodent; hit a ball with this (3) 16. Blokes, in general (3)

DOWN 1. Cut the lawn (3) 2. A spot (3) 3. Towards the back end of a boat (3) 4. A mat (3) 7. Early night time (3) 9. Gorilla, chimp, orangutan, etc (3) 10. Cry (3) 11. Pretend; put on a play (3) 12. Holds in tonnes of water (3) 13. Granny, grandma, grandmother (3) Solution next page

What's your score?

5 Meh. But at least you tried! 13 Pretty good, eh? 22 Awesome 40 Holy crap! Mega genius! 88+ You are clearly a human dictionary and/or computer...we didn't even know half of those crazy words! Answers next page

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T F E Y E E N NOD E BAR B B L E E E

CROSSWORD 2 SOLUTION

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B L U L E U B R E A K B E

CROSSWORD 1 SOLUTION

1. Male cow. (4) 2. You can bang out a horse shoe on one. (5) 3. Soft part of a nut you eat. (6) 4. Person between 13-19 years old. (4) 5. Covers part of a car wheel to stop mud splash. (5) 9. Stops a car or bike from moving. (5) 11. Can do something. (4) 13. Might be used to catch a fish. (3) 14. Be seated. (3) 16. Exist. (2)

M U D A I R O O A F U W E T T A G V P S E A D E N O C I A A B A T M E N

1. You might wrap yourself in one to keep warm. (7) 6. You see with one. (3) 7. Crowbar; jemmy. (5) 8. Say "yes" by moving head up & down. (3) 9. Lose blood from a cut. (5) 10. Pub. (3) 12. make money. (4) 15. Can be eaten. (6) 17. Keeps your pants up. (4) 18. Put a golf ball on one before hitting it. (3)

TARGET SOLUTION (red=more common) acorn, acorns, arson, bacon, baron, barons, basion, bicorn, bicorns, bios, bison, boar, boars, boas, bonsai, bora, boric, born, brio, bronc, broncs, canso, carbon, carbons, carob, carobs, casino, ciao, ciaos, cion, cobia, cobias, cobra, cobras, cobs, coif, coifs, coin, coins, coir, coirs, confab, confabs, cons, corban, corf, coria, corn, corns, faro, fiasco, FIBROSCAN, fico, fino, fobs, foci, foin, fora, frons, icon, icons, info, insofar, ions, iron, irons, isobar, naos, nobs, noria, norias, oafs, oars, obis, orbs, orca, orcas, ornis, racon, racons, roan, roans, robin, robins, robs, rocs, rosin, scion, scoria, scorn, snob, soar, soba, sofa, sofar, sonar, sonic, sora, sorb, sori, sorn