The Magazine of Hepatitis Victoria
July 2017
Good Liver
Recognising ‘the diversity within the diversity’ in the hepatitis challenge Dr Mimmie Watts visited Hepatitis Victoria to talk about working with African Australian teenage mothers.
Stopping stigma is vital to eliminating hepatitis Health care services are a place people report experiencing quite severe discrimination and stigma in relation to hepatitis. Why does hepatitis attract this kind of censure?
City of Greater Dandenong continues strong commitment to hepatitis Mayor, Councillor Jim Memeti, has a Q&A with Good Liver.
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Carolyn Mogharbel
Health Promotion Officer Telephone: 9385 9112 carolyn@hepvic.org.au
Shwetha Shankar
Health Promotion Officer Telephone: 9385 9108 shwetha@hepvic.org.au
Meg Perrier
Health Promotion Officer Telephone: 9385 9125 meg@hepvic.org.au
Sione Crawford
Health Promotion Officer Telephone: 9385 9110 sione@hepvic.org.au
Dina Abdelsalam
Hepatitis C CALD Outreach Officer Telephone: 9385 9105 dina@hepvic.org.au
Melanie Eagle CEO
Kaz Cochrane
Telephone: 9385 9102 melanie@hepvic.org.au
Development Coordinator Telephone: 9385 9118 kaz@hepvic.org.au
Garry Irving
Lien Tran
Programs and Operations Manager Telephone: 9385 9109 garryi@hepvic.org.au
Martin Forrest
Health Promotion Program Manager Telephone: 9385 9111 martin@hepvic.org.au
Damian Salt
Office Coordinator Telephone: 9380 4644 admin@hepvic.org.au
Aurora Tang
Community Education and Engagement Manager Telephone: 9385 9103 aurora@hepvic.org.au
Hepatitis B Community Education Project Officer Telephone: 9385 9123 lien@hepvic.org.au
Jawid Sayed
Hepatitis B Community Education Project Officer Telephone: 9385 9121 jawid@hepvic.org.au
Digital and Online Services Officer Telephone: 9385 9106 shaun@hepvic.org.au
Reece Lamshed
HEPReady Business Development Manager Telephone: 9385 9116 reece@hepvic.org.au
Karen Greening
HEPReady Project Officer Telephone: 9385 9117 karen@hepvic.org.au
Nicole Gunn
HEPReady Sales and Client Liaison Officer Telephone: 9385 9119 nicole@hepvic.org.au
Kate Sievert
Community Participation Officer Telephone: 9385 9114 kate@hepvic.org.au
Kaspian Fitzpatrick
Stigma Response Co-ordinator Telephone: 9385 9113 kaspian@hepvic.org.au
Darren Lewin-Hill
Communications Manager Telephone: 9385 9107 darren@hepvic.org.au
Tuan Nguyen
Hepatitis B Community Education Project Officer Telephone: 9385 9105 tuan@hepvic.org.au
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Communiqué
From the desk of the Chief Executive Officer
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De-livering the news
News, reports and papers
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Recognising ‘the diversity within the diversity’ in the hepatitis challenge
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Stopping stigma vital to eliminating hepatitis
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LIVERability Festival expands community reach
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City of Greater Dandenong continues strong commitment to hepatitis
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creativity to the hepatitis challenge
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New project tackle hepatitis in prisons
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HEPReady: Meeting awareness with training
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Acting on hepatitis: Finding out, connect, talk with your doctor
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Healthy living guide Recipe: Chicken stock
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Healthy living guide Ten tips for exercising safely
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Liver clinics and liver specialists
Lara Kanaef
Hepatitis B Community Education Project Officer Telephone: 9385 9104 lara@hepvic.org.au
Good Liver is produced by Hepatitis Victoria, with support from the Victorian Government. The opinions and language expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of Hepatitis Victoria or the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Communique
From the desk of the Chief Executive Officer
seeking testing and treatment – treatment that can stem the liver damage of hepatitis B, and now, in more than 95 per cent of cases, cure hepatitis C. Over July and August, the festival is focusing on diversity to explore new approaches to reaching priority communities, working with the City of Greater Dandenong to raise awareness, and highlighting youth creativity delivering vivid messages to young people on what they need to know about viral hepatitis.
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his edition of Good Liver magazine is reaching you as our LIVERability Festival offers an expanded and engaging program of events to tackle viral hepatitis in Victoria. This year the festival is reaching more communities, as we work with new and existing partners and join in a national and indeed global campaign as part of World Hepatitis Day on 28 July. The theme of that campaign is ‘Elimination’ – of viral hepatitis itself, but also of the stigma and discrimination that can prevent people living with or at risk of hepatitis
We are joining with major research institutes to consider clinical advances and challenges, supporting art as a medium to communicate about the high prevalence of hepatitis in Victoria’s prisons, and watching myriad community-driven events unfold through our LIVERability grants. You will also read in this edition how we are responding to raised awareness about hepatitis with HEPReady training to inform and empower workforces with knowledge that dispels myths with skills, answers and options to tackle the disease.
With the Victorian Government’s 2016 launch of landmark strategies to address hepatitis B and C, its recent investment to expand hepatitis B vaccination, and with a national strategy now set for review by the Federal Government, the festival and broader campaign also provide important opportunities to engage governments on their next steps towards eliminating viral hepatitis in Australia by 2030. One key example of this is the Victorian Government’s involvement in Diverse communities and the hepatitis challenge – towards elimination on 24 July. We invite you to join us through the festival and campaign, and to follow the social media conversation on Twitter through the hash-tags #NoHep, #HepFreeAus and #HepFreeVic. With around half a million Australians currently living with chronic hepatitis B and C, and many thousands more at risk, it is a conversation vital for hope and change.
Melanie Eagle CEO
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De-Livering the news Some frequently asked questions
State Budget brings new investment for Hep B vaccinations The May Victorian Budget included new investment of $1.3 million over four years to increase hepatitis B vaccination among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. Many CALD communities are disproportionately impacted by hepatitis B, for which the main mode of transmission is mother-to-baby. The investment is an important step towards elimination, consistent with the Victorian hepatitis B strategy 2016–2020, launched in July last year. CALD communities are also disproportionately affected by hepatitis C, with measures required to address both types of the chronic health condition that together affect around 120,000 Victorians. The impact of hepatitis B and C on CALD communities will be a key focus of Diverse communities and the hepatitis challenge – towards elimination, a LIVERability Festival event to be held at the Parliament of Victoria on Monday 24 July.
HV charts new strategic directions
National strategy for hepatitis set for review Hepatitis B and C are among five major strategies set to be drafted for 2018–2022. The strategies include:
• 3rd National Hepatitis B Strategy; • 4th National STI Strategy; • 5th National Hepatitis C Strategy; • 5th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander BBV and STI Strategy;
• 8th National HIV Strategy. This means that hepatitis B and C will continue to be specifically addressed by national strategies, complementing corresponding strategies launched by the Victorian Government in July 2016.
Survey of GPs shows we have a way to go yet in treating hep C A Burnet Institute Survey of one hundred GPs has shown that while most respondents were interested in prescribing the new DAA medications for hepatitis C, there are a number of areas their knowledge could improve. We at the Hepatitis Victoria Infoline know that consultation pathways are not transparent for all patients and GPs, as one of the most common queries we get is from both GPs and patients wondering where to find more information about actually accessing treatment. This was identified as an issue in the survey as well.
On 23 May, people with lived experience of hepatitis, clinicians and stakeholders came together with Hepatitis Victoria to progress development of a new strategic plan for the next five years. The Board
Knowledge around PBS eligibility for treatment was also an area which could be improved. Only a minority of respondents knew that current injectors are eligible for treatment.
is currently finalising the plan, which will feature in the September
In the context of eliminating hepatitis C, it will be very important to
edition of Good Liver, with a scorecard on the current strategic plan to
treat everybody with hepatitis and in fact people who are currently
be published online.
injecting are a priority if we wish to eliminate the virus.
Hepatitis Victoria wins new funding for awareness projects
14 per cent incorrectly identified hepatitis C antibody-screening
Hepatitis Victoria was among the organisations to benefit from a $250,000 commitment by the North Western Primary Health Network for six new projects to fight hepatitis B and C in Melbourne’s North and West. Hepatitis Victoria will use the funding to undertake a media and advertising campaign to improve hepatitis B and hepatitis C awareness in north and west Melbourne, and to train pharmacists and front of house pharmacy staff on hepatitis B and hepatitis C, including
to unnecessary referrals and delays for the patient.
to encourage their clients to seek testing and treatment.
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test positivity as diagnostic of current infection. In fact, this is only knowable through a PCR virus test. This misconception could lead If we hope to capitalise on the current availability of hepatitis C treatment to eliminate this virus it will be crucial for the primary care sector and GPs to play their part. This survey will no doubt be followed up with further research but for now it appears that we need to improve the knowledge of this sector around hepatitis C treatment and cure.
Recognising ‘the diversity within the diversity’ in the hepatitis challenge
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hen Dr Mimmie Claudine Watts recently visited Hepatitis Victoria to talk about working with African Australian teenage mothers in Greater Melbourne, we wondered if there were themes and insights from her ‘Sensitive Research with Vulnerable Participants’ that might apply more broadly to reaching culturally diverse communities. With many of these communities disproportionately impacted by viral hepatitis, they are an important focal point for the challenge of elimination adopted as the theme for World Hepatitis Day this month. Mimmie kindly took the time to talk to Good Liver. In a 2013 paper, Mimmie noted little had been written on how to do research with young African women and vulnerable participants. When asked why, she highlighted biases, illnesses that are often not ‘visible’, the tendency of people not to take notice unless they are directly affected, and low health literacy among culturally diverse communities. Preventative care was not a familiar concept to many people, she noted. If these communities were made aware and were properly supported, it would arouse their interest, but our interview made clear the depth and complexity of that challenge. She recommended using a cultural competency framework that ‘recognises other people are different from us, and that we need to provide services in a way that is appropriate and acceptable to them’. Mimmie noted positive and negative biases and prejudices we all have can limit practices and service delivery. It was important to recognise this and ‘bracket’ our thoughts and selves when we work with clients from cultures others than our own. Cultural competence was a continuum, she said, and is never fully achieved, but instead we can aim to achieve it over time.
Mimmie said such potential ‘exposures’ should lead us to consider historic facts, relationships of power, and the similarities and differences in cultural values and experiences to address the potential distrust between researchers and the diverse communities they work with. A tendency for communities to become ‘research fatigued’ could be addressed, she said, by sharing the benefits of research – either for participants, or more broadly – in ‘simplified relatable terms’. Returning to the communities was essential post research to disseminate the findings. So, how do we actively involve a community in designing a culturally competent research project? Community members should be worked with ‘as partners rather than as subjects’. This led to ownership, with participants seeing themselves as equals, accountable for successes and failures. This applied not just to research, but to engagement of diverse communities more generally. The recent Inaugural African Women’s Diaspora Summit, for example, brought together like-minded people, including diverse communities of African Australian, European, and Asian women (and men), together with service providers, to reach a ‘second and third chain’ of people to create networks strongly linked to the issues, and therefore vital to their solution. Mimmie said there were many connections between the themes raised by her own research and the challenge of reaching culturally diverse communities to promote prevention, testing and treatment of viral hepatitis.
When asked whether there was also a tendency to ignore intracultural differences, and to treat people of different ethnic groupings within a community as the same, Mimmie strongly agreed.
‘Viral infections are hidden, and there’s a stigma with everything transmitted by sex. People don’t talk about sex, and they don’t talk about diseases. Viral hepatitis also isn’t visual. The liver is being damaged, but physically people may look outwardly healthy,’ Mimmie said.
‘Africa is 54 independent nations,’ she said, noting that her own country of origin, Cameroon, prided itself on 200–300 cultural groups, similar to migrants from other countries.
As well as adopting culturally competent approaches, ‘We need to engage people from communities to lead the work we are doing, because they come with the cultural competence as well’.
‘We need to acknowledge the diversity within the diversity,’ Mimmie said.
Dr Mimmie Claudine Watts is a public health expert and academic in the College of Health & Biomedicine at Victoria University, a Victorian Multicultural Commissioner and Convener of the Inaugural African Diaspora Women’s Summit.
She said a lack of awareness of the perceived authority of researchers could also act as a barrier to research because of the past negative experiences of participants, citing historical forced sterilisation of women, and the infamous 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The US study recruited hundreds of black American men not to treat them, but, without their informed consent, to study the progress of the disease until some died, despite the later availability of antibiotics as the trial went on.
Approaches to reaching diverse communities will feature in Diverse communities and the hepatitis challenge – towards elimination on 24 July.
Darren Lewin-Hill Communications Manager
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Stopping stigma vital to eliminating hepatitis
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ealth care services are a place people report experiencing sometimes quite severe discrimination and stigmatising behaviours in relation to hepatitis C. The types of behaviours people report health care staff displaying include stigmatising language and behaviour, such as interacting in a negative or abrupt manner, to overtly shaming and blaming someone for having hepatitis C. Sometimes the behaviour is related to perceptions of need for infection control, such as suddenly not being willing to touch someone, or to do so only with gloves on, to putting people last on operating
Why does hepatitis C attract this kind of censure? Most would propose that it is because hepatitis C transmission occurs commonly via injecting drug use in Australia, and whether a person contracted it this way or not is irrelevant. There are no laws or statutes that specifically protect the rights of people who inject drugs and socially this behaviour attracts a large degree of censure, is surrounded by negative myth and misinformation, and within the health care
medications for curing hepatitis C are so radically improved, for those who are not engaged already with excellent health care professionals, or do not know of a service they feel safe to access, testing and/or treatment could easily stay on the to do list indefinitely. This is not because people don’t care about their health, but because the process of trying to do so is unhealthy. We also need to bear in mind, that even if everyone living with hepatitis C did access treatment, there are potentially some for whom treatment will not work, and there
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ELIMINATING HEPAT ITIS lists or even denying treatment. These infection-control related actions are not evidence based or rational – quite the contrary. Other commonly reported experiences include staff sharing medical information inappropriately – this might be in relation to telling other services someone has hepatitis, or sharing other information not consented to, because of a prevailing view that it is appropriate to ‘alert’ other people to the fact that someone has hepatitis C, as if this is a dangerous and significant fact about a person. The belief that people should be treated in these various ways amounts to social punishment, whether conscious or not, as well as sometimes being plainly illegal.
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sector, is commonly seen as health related behaviour that is morally unjustifiable, and therefore a ‘drain’ on the health care system by people who are ‘mad’ and/or ‘bad’. While there are lots of health care professionals who do not hold these types of views, it only takes one change of tone in the communication of a health care professional, or even just the recognition of prevailing social mores, to solidify for most people that accessing health care services, or disclosing one’s status, is something to be avoided where possible. So in relation to the impact of stigma and discrimination on eliminating hepatitis C, while it is very exciting that the
are people who, despite cure, will experience ongoing liver and related issues as a result of past hepatitis C infection. These people also deserve respectful and nonjudgemental health care. Getting close to eliminating hepatitis C is an excellent proposition, and who wouldn’t support this endeavour?! It seems reasonable to believe that to do so, attitudes need to change, and behaviours improve, not only in order to get close to elimination, but also for those who are in need of ongoing care, and last, but certainly not least, because punishing people accessing health services just isn’t a healthy approach, or morally justifiable. www.hepvic.org.au/page/1215/stigmaand-discrimination Kaspian Fitzpatrick Stigma Response Co-ordinator
LIVERability Festival expands community reach
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epatitis Victoria is taking part in the international public health campaign led by the World Health Organisation to bring partners together to combat viral hepatitis. On 28 July the global campaign will come together to raise awareness of the ‘silent epidemic’ of hepatitis B and C, which together affect 400 million people around the world. The Victorian response to the worldwide campaign is the LIVERability festival, which is a series of events now underway that engages a broad range of audiences to support elimination of a disease that impacts around half a million Australians. Events over July and August are held under the banner of LIVERability to highlight the impact that the condition has on the liver, on health and on improving the
quality of life for those affected by the condition. Recent advances in the medical response to the condition, with an effective vaccine available for hepatitis B, and new improved Direct Acting Antiviral medicines to cure hepatitis C, mean it is now feasible to eliminate the condition as a public health threat by the target date of 2030.
LIVERability events suit a range of audiences and are hosted by a number of partners – the Doherty Institute Symposium for researchers, scientists and clinicians, the Burnet Institute Colloqium to discuss the Victorian response to the elimination agenda, and the StreetShot exhibition launch where schools and colleges contribute works of art, are all examples of the events held under the LIVERability banner. In addition to these major events, numerous community engagements run by Hepatitis Victoria and supported by our volunteers are raising awareness of viral hepatitis by engaging directly with the public. Examples of these are the City of Melbourne LIVERability event in the Bourke Street Mall, the City of Greater Dandenong Harmony Square event, with video
organisations are hosting ‘Love Your Liver’ events in Wodonga, Echuca, Shepparton and Warnambool among others. The community grants continue to be an effective way of supporting not-for-profit organisations to become involved in the World Hepatitis Day movement and contribute to the LIVERability festival. The diversity of the communities that we reach out to as a part of the festival is highlighted by the Hepatitis Victoria partnership with the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria. Diverse communities and the hepatitis challenge – towards elimination is a major event in the Festival calendar for 2017. Held on the 24 July, in the spirit of the festival it brings together representatives of Victorian culturally diverse, at-risk communities to progress the elimination goal. Another significant collaboration with Justice Health uses art as a medium
messages from the mayor and councillors complemented by our staff and volunteers distributing resources in multiple languages. The Springvale Snow Festival on 30 July will also feature direct community engagement to spread the word about the ‘silent epidemic’.
to spread awareness of viral hepatitis among Victorian prisoners. The Inside Art Initiative is also held under the LIVERability banner and demonstrates the reach of the festival activities.
Rural Victoria is also well represented in the festival agenda, with numerous events supported by the LIVERability Community Grants. A number of Aboriginal community
www.hepvic.org.au/page/1179/ liverability-festival-2017
The festival relies on the participation of the broader community to continue to be a success. The Hepatitis Victoria website contains the most up-to-date information on partners and events and once again we extend the invitation for you to join in and participate.
Martin Forest Health Promotion Program Manager
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City of Greater Dandenong continues strong commitment to hepatitis
City of Greater Dandenong Mayor, Councillor Jim Memeti
With a major LIVERability Festival event staged at Harmony Square in the City of Greater Dandenong, the Mayor, Councillor Jim Memeti, made time for this Q&A with Good Liver. This is the second year the City of Greater Dandenong has participated in the LIVERability Festival. Can you talk a bit about what is driving Council’s commitment to the response to hepatitis among culturally diverse communities?
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The City of Greater Dandenong is the most culturally diverse municipality in Victoria, with residents from more than 150 different birthplaces. Given that the prevalence of viral hepatitis is significantly higher among some CALD communities, awareness and education about this issue is an important one.
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In Australia, hepatitis B disproportionately affects those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, with more than two thirds of those living with hepatitis B born overseas. The City of Greater Dandenong works closely with Monash Health – South East Primary Health Network and Hepatitis Victoria to raise awareness and educate the local community about viral
hepatitis, how to protect yourself and the treatments available.
How does your involvement in the LIVERability Festival fit with Council’s broader activities in responding to hepatitis? Who are your key partners, and how do you work together? What are the benefits of a networked approach?
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The City of Greater Dandenong supports the coordinated efforts of Hepatitis Victoria in partnership with Monash Health – South East Primary Health Network. In March this year Hepatitis Victoria staff and volunteers participated in Greater Dandenong Council’s Harmony Festival. An information stall was set up and
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around 70 people, mainly from CALD backgrounds, received information and resources on Hepatitis in many languages including Dari, Chinese and Vietnamese.
What do you think is the broader potential for Councils around Victoria to participate in efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis and the stigma and discrimination that often accompany it?
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Council’s main goal is to assist residents so that they can live rewarding, healthy and socially connected lives. To achieve this Council works in collaboration with other levels of government, community health providers and service agencies. In addition to this, Council can also share information through its community networks and primary health networks. Regularly meeting with the key CALD stakeholders in the area, offering staff training and supporting events such as World Hepatitis Day also assists Council in raising awareness and increasing education.
The City has strong representation of its communities on Council, and Councillors are also participating in the Festival. Can you talk about the benefits of representing diversity on Council for reaching all your communities?
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From the City’s perspective, what could Hepatitis Victoria do to enhance the way it works with Council to address hepatitis, including with respect to diverse communities?
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As with any community health campaign, the key to its success is ensuring the information being given to the community is accurate and consistent. If Hepatitis Victoria continue to keep Council informed, we can ensure the information we are passing on to our residents is current and relevant.
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In supporting Councils to work with people at risk of or living with hepatitis, do you think there might be benefits in workforce training for Council staff, such as our HEPReady training?
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Council will continue to support its staff who work in the health space. They will do this by providing access to relevant training which ensures the information our community is receiving is accurate and up to date.
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In July 2016, the Victorian Government launched two major strategies to eliminate viral hepatitis in Victoria by 2030. If you were asked to suggest one key action to help achieve this, what would it be?
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One of the key objectives of Council is to reduce the levels of stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with viral Hepatitis to zero. To achieve this, we must continue to raise awareness and educate our community about viral hepatitis. We are working collaboratively with health care providers and groups such as Hepatitis Victoria to enhance the health of our community, educate the community about hepatitis and promote equality and respect. The City of Greater Dandenong is also achieving this through its Council Plan 2017–21, which focuses on creating a safe and healthy community – and its Community Wellbeing Plan, which seeks to increase the health and wellbeing outcomes for everyone living in our community.
Since the City became involved in helping to tackle hepatitis, has there been anything that has really surprised you in what you personally have learnt about the disease?
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I think the most surprising fact Council has learnt about hepatitis to date is the number of Australians the disease affects each year. To learn that almost 500,000 people in Australia live with chronic viral Hepatitis (B and C) and 15,000 Australians are diagnosed with viral hepatitis each year was a shock
Darren Lewin-Hill Communications Manager
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The City of Greater Dandenong regularly engages with key stakeholders through a range of existing groups and committees. To build a strong and cohesive community in Greater Dandenong it is imperative that Council work collaboratively with the local community. Council, as well as community organisations and local businesses work together to help achieve a healthy, active and engaged community, and one which celebrates diversity.
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StreetShot brings youth creativity to the hepatitis challenge
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n Australia, over 50 per cent of newly acquired hepatitis C infections are in young people aged 15–29. Since 2010, Hepatitis Victoria’s StreetShot program has celebrated and championed the voices of young people as key agents in the prevention of viral hepatitis. StreetShot is a unique youth health promotion program that is based upon providing education sessions about viral hepatitis to young people, and then challenging them to create artworks that reflect their new understandings. Throughout the years the voices and stories of young people have been captured through photographic and video entries that represent their own understandings of viral hepatitis, and what they think that their peers need to know about it. The artworks that Hepatitis Victoria receives through the StreetShot program are used throughout our work, and offer a window into the concerns, insights and perspectives of the young people with whom we engage. The young people are at the centre of the StreetShot program, and Hepatitis Victoria values and champions their commitment to the program and their wonderful contributions. In 2017 the StreetShot program has further developed its work with young people by expanding the program to include education about hepatitis B, in addition to hepatitis C. This decision reflects the fact that there are still significant numbers of diagnoses of hepatitis B in young people aged 15–29, and that young people have the capacity to lead the change in this area. The young people that we have spoken to have risen to this challenge, and have embraced the opportunity to broaden their entries into the competition. The Hepatitis Victoria health promotion team has been busy travelling across Victoria to educate young people about viral hepatitis, promote the program, and support young people and their workers to enter the competition. Over 30 education sessions have been conducted across Metropolitan Melbourne as well as in Broadford, Wallan,
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Seymour, Wangaratta, Wodonga, Mildura, Swan Hill, Donald, Rainbow, Murtoa, Warrnambool, Geelong, Shepparton and Bendigo. Over 650 young people, as well as their teachers, youth workers, and other significant adults, have been educated about viral hepatitis. Across Victoria we have met interesting, inspiring and challenging young people who each have their own unique and creative perspectives on hepatitis prevention.
about how it is transmitted and not to judge people’, ‘It was very hands on, it wasn’t just bucket loads of information, she was very interactive’. Additionally, the young people’s educators report that the information provided is extremely relevant to their young people, and that their students ‘now have the tools and understanding to keep themselves safe’.
The annual StreetShot exhibition, showcasing the young participants’ work, will be held at VU at Metrowest, 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray from Friday 28 July to Friday 11 August. The StreetShot exhibition opening and awards presentation will be held on World Hepatitis Day, Friday 28 July from 11.30am– 1.30pm at the gallery. All Hepatitis Victoria supporters, and anybody interested in this innovative youth health promotion program, are invited to attend. For more information, please see www.streetshot.org.au
Young people have found the sessions to be valuable: ‘Because of today’s presentation, I learnt a lot about something important that I knew nothing about’, ‘I liked learning the risks of hepatitis and telling us how we can get it, why we need to be careful and having been told the places to get help’, ‘I like the discussions we had and how she involved us in conversation’, ‘I liked learning
We would like to thank the schools and youth services that we have attended, as well as the educators, youth workers and teachers who have engaged the StreetShot program and invited us to work with their young people in 2017. Without these people, and their understanding of the importance of viral hepatitis education, we would not have been able meet the amazing young people that we have worked with in 2017. We would especially like to thank the 650+ young people with whom we have engaged in 2017 – whose insights, experiences, knowledge and creativity inform and enhance our work, and who are the real heart of the StreetShot program.
Carolyn Mogharbel Health Promotion Officer
New project tackles hepatitis in prisons
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he LIVERability Festival is about raising awareness of liver health and viral hepatitis throughout the community and is focused on including as many people as possible in the event. Hepatitis Victoria is committed to including people in prison in this event as well. In 2016 we undertook a project called Art Inside the West which produced resources about liver health and viral hepatitis by prisoners for prisoners. In 2017, we are expanding the project to include six prisons across Victoria in the project. Art Inside 2017 is an opportunity for artistically minded prisoners to exercise their talents and help raise awareness amongst prisoners about viral hepatitis and liver health. The project revolves around an education session on viral hepatitis B and C in particular with an art workshop following the education session. Anyone who is interested can attend the education session and then those who decide they would like to craft a piece for submission can stay for the workshop. We are very lucky to have the wonderful Hep Hero Steven Taylor assisting us with this project. Steven is an artist in his own right and is working with us to develop the sessions to best encourage and bring out the artistic talent of attendees. Steven has particular experience in translating more abstract notions such as stigma, guilt, hope and happiness into more concrete illustrations and pieces of art. One of his projects, C the Change which demonstrates this wonderfully is available at Hepatitis Victoria’s YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jOOKUqvqdA While the type of resource we will be producing is not yet finalised, we do know that playing cards and calendars are not likely, simply because these were produced for Art Inside the West.
These resources allowed us to utilise as many pieces of submitted art as possible. Nevertheless there were three pieces that were selected to be the centrepieces of these resources. These were used either on the box of the deck of playing cards or the back of each card. Art Inside 2017 has already begun and will continue to take place over the next few months, especially during the LIVERability festival in July and August. Hepatitis Victoria has a long history working in prisons and in the context of hepatitis C in particular. Our work in prison is important for multiple reasons. It is important to remember that while people are in prison they are entitled to healthcare available to people in the wider community. The punishment people
in prison are undergoing is deprivation of liberty over time – separation from community and often from family. Allowing prisoners to get sick and contract viruses is not part of their punishment. So we work with prisoners to ensure they have the knowledge and where possible the capacity to avoid or at least lower the risk of contracting viral hepatitis or to access treatment where they are positive. This project is about producing messages and tools for prisoners to use in those efforts. People in prison are more likely to be hepatitis B or C positive than people in the general community. For example, according to data from 2013 29 per cent of males and 41per cent of females in prison were hepatitis C positive. This compares to the general population rate of approximately 1 per cent. Several populations of people who are even further at risk of being hepatitis B or C positive are over-represented in prisons when compared to most populations and we work especially hard to include these groups in our work.
Sione Crawford Health Promotion Officer
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HEPReady: Meeting awareness with training
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n March 2017 Hepatitis Victoria officially launched the second instalment of its workforce development venture, HEPReady Comprehensive, after releasing its foundational program, Essentials, last year.
HEPReady Essentials and
HEPReady Comprehensive is a suite
Comprehensive workforce development training equips organisations with the tools to have conversations with those living with hepatitis or at risk of living with hepatitis sensitively.
of 17 units (so far) that can be bundled
Together, these programs are designed to meet increased awareness of viral hepatitis with quality training to build capacity among staff working with clients who may be at risk, or who are living with viral hepatitis.
Essentials covers the differences between A, B and C, and risk behaviours, disease progression of each, and treatments for B and C. Importantly, it has a strong emphasis on stigma and discrimination.
hepatitis C as standard, but organisations
together to cater to the individuals’ and organisations’ learning needs. Hepatitis Victoria offers a bundle of four units focused on hepatitis B and four units on can pick and choose to develop an appropriate learning plan for their organisation. Each Comprehensive unit is accompanied by a participant guide and an online video
HEPReady Essentials and Comprehensive workforce development training equips organisations with the tools to have conversations with those living with hepatitis or at risk of living with hepatitis sensitively. HEPReady is the direct result of an investigation into why there is a lack of uptake of testing and treatment for people at risk of hepatitis B and C. As a result, we now know stigma and discrimination around viral hepatitis are major factors that deter people from seeking medical intervention. We know that approximately 56,000 people in Victoria are living with chronic hepatitis B, and 44 per cent are unaware they are living with the condition. Approximately 65,000 Victorians are living with chronic hepatitis C. These numbers are particularly alarming when we have a vaccine for hepatitis B and 95 per cent of people living with hepatitis C can be cured in two to three months. Hepatitis Victoria has developed HEPReady as a key tool for the health and community workforce sectors to help eradicate viral hepatitis as a public health concern by 2030.
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It was the first training in Victoria to incorporate ‘lived experience’, which participant surveys tell us is a highlight of this training.
with an expert from that field. HEPReady is empowering organisations to debunk the myths and misconceptions around viral hepatitis. This training will also empower workers in the health and community sectors to encourage testing and treatment, which in turn will help Victoria to reach its goal of eliminating viral hepatitis.
Nicole Gunn HEPReady Sales and Client Liaison Officer
Acting on hepatitis: Find out, connect, talk with your doctor Well there are still options. Obviously, you could look for a GP and begin a relationship. This is probably the best approach for your long-term health. But we do acknowledge that it can be frightening speaking to someone about hep C for the first time – especially if you have experience of discrimination at the hands of health care workers. If you are an NSP client the staff at the NSP would be likely to be able to put you onto a health care worker attached to or close to their service. This might be a nurse at a community health centre who does outreach, for instance. Alternatively, you could call your local community health centre and ask them what system they have in place for this treatment.
I
t should be even easier to get on to hepatitis C treatments now!
Ever since the new hepatitis C treatments were approved for subsidy and use in Australia we have been able to get treatment through GPs. But at the start there was one barrier: GPs had to contact a gastro or infectious diseases specialist for final sign off on prescribing the new DirectActing Antivirals (DAAs). This was the case whether a GP had no experience or whether they had put a number of people through the treatments and was experienced. Now GPs can prescribe directly for patients if they have experience in prescribing DAAs. The directive from the government allowing this doesn’t specify what constitutes this confidence or experience but the common thinking is that if they have undertaken treatment with four or five patients that should constitute the experience necessary. However, as people affected by hepatitis C, we all have different circumstances and relationships with GPs and doctors in general. It isn’t always easy to start a conversation about hepatitis C – and that goes for many doctors too!
Nevertheless, we are entitled to ask for treatment for any health condition we have. So, if you are one of those people who have a regular GP and who has the confidence to ask for treatment we would encourage you to start the conversation with your GP. If they are uncertain about the process there are numerous places they can get assistance. We get GPs calling our Infoline all the time about this! There are at least two great resources to assist GPs. The first place they could check would be their local Primary Health Network (PHN) website. Many of these have all the forms, procedures and policies in one place to help the GP. This is a great option because it should have links to local specialists as well, who will need to be consulted remotely if the GP is not experienced in DAA prescription. If the local PHN doesn’t have this information on their website another option is www.hepchelp.org.au. This site is put together by the Burnet Institute which is a leader in Victoria and the world in hep C research and treatment. What if you don’t have a regular GP or a doctor at all?
Some homelessness agencies have referral links available, and at least one major provider has ensured all their caseworkers are up to date on hep C treatment and where to access it, so if that is your situation it is worth asking, if it hasn’t been offered already. We do know that accessing treatment in regional and rural areas can be tricky, but there are some contacts in the back of Good Liver and the HepCHelp website may be useful too. It is really important that everyone with hep C gets the opportunity to have it treated while the opportunity exists in Australia. The only limit currently is that you need to be over 18 with a Medicare card. So regardless of whether you are a person in their 60s who contracted hep C years ago or whether you are a 20-year-old person currently injecting or whether you are somewhere in between you can access hep C treatment. Don’t forget you can also call our Infoline on 1800 703 003 to ask any question about this.
Sione Crawford Health Promotion Officer
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Healthy living guide
Recipe
Stock (Chicken) the real deal
It will take 3–4 hours and requires attention but the result and taste is worth it. Great Italian food is rich and has depth in flavour. This is achieved by adding a dose of homemade stock. Concentrated and full of flavour, small amounts of the golden liquid are added to meat, vegetable and sauce recipes. Italians prioritise and celebrate eating. The dinners can be long, with numerous courses washed down with jugs of water and wine and memorable food.
Cooking time 4.5 hours Around 20 serves
Ingredients 1 kilogram bones (chicken beef or veal)
Method
1 medium peeled onion
Bones washed well with water.
½ of 1 leek (white or light green part)
Vegetables trimmed of any ends and coarsely chopped.
2 bay leaves
Combine bones and water in large pot. Bring to boil over medium heat. Skim surface when necessary of skim throughout entire process.
Tablespoon of black pepper corns
Continue for 2.5 to 3 hours. Add herbs and vegetables. Simmer a further 1.5 hours. Strain liquid and cool before refrigeration soon after. When chilled correctly any remaining fat will harden on surface and can be peeled off to discard. Use and freeze remaining liquid in ice or half cup size container and freeze.
Bellissimo!
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1 celery stalk 1 peeled carrot
1 ¼ litres of cold water
Healthy living guide
Exercise
Ten tips to exercise safely The benefits of regular exercise, even a 30-minute daily walk, are felt almost immediately. You begin to feel stronger physically, the mind becomes clear, with positive thoughts attributed to feelings of achievement and commitment – not to mention the amount of oxygen being pumped through your entire body and mind.
In order to keep motivated and feeling good, remaining injury free is key. Understand basic techniques and apply common sense to keep it safe.
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Warm up – slow stretches before and after assist keeping you from painful cramping later on.
2
Training gear check – make sure your trainers fit correctly, along with any gear fitted to your activity. Look after it.
3
Hydration, Hydration, Hydration – drink water before, during and after exercise to make up for the up to 1.3 litres of fluid you can lose in 1 hour of exercise.
4
Become in tune with your body to identify things that don’t feel right, not different, but right. If it doesn’t feel right, stop immediately and choose something else.
5
Rest for at least one day a week. You have earned it.
6
Get the technique right. Look to a professional to help you with the technique. Every activity has a technique. Your muscles will thank you.
7
Mix up your routine to avoid over-training that will lead to boredom.
8
Common sense prevails when working out at night or in parks. Know your surroundings, say hello to people you pass.
9
If you are pounding the pavement or just have sensitive joints, strap or tape before you begin. The tape will support the area and give confidence and better intention.
10 Be kind to yourself, recognise your achievements, positive internal dialogue sounds great.
Damian Salt Office Co-ordinator
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Liver clinics and liver specialists Albury
Albury Community Health - Hepatitis Clinic 596 Smollett Street, Albury Contact: (02) 6058 1800 Fax: (02) 6058 1801
Bairnsdale
Bairnsdale, Regional Hospital, Specialist Consulting Rooms 122 Day Street, Bairnsdale Contact: (03) 5150 3478 Fax: (03) 5150 3404
Ballarat
Ballarat Health Services 577 Drummond Street North, Ballarat Contact: (03) 5320 4211 Fax: (03) 5320 4097 Ballarat Community Health 12 Liliburne Street, Lucas Contact: (03) 5338 4500
Bendigo
Bendigo Health Lucan Street, Bendigo Contact: (03) 5454 8422 Fax: (03) 5454 8419
Bentleigh East
Moorabin Specialist Centre (Private) 873 Centre Road, Bentleigh East Contact (03) 9579 0100 Fax: (03) 9563 7554
Berwick
76 Clyde Street, Berwick Contact: (03) 9796 1500 Fax: (03) 9796 1300
Box Hill
Box Hill Hospital 8 Arnold Street, Box Hill 3128 Contact: (03) 9895 3352 (OPD) 1300 342 255 (General)
Caulfield South
Caulfield Endoscopy (Private) 544 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South Contact: (03) 9595 6666 Fax: (03) 9595 6611 Email: info@caulfieldendoscopy.com.au
Clayton
Southern Health Monash Medical Centre 246 Clayton Road, Clayton Contact: (03) 9594 6666 Fax: (03) 9594 6111 Email: outpatient.enquiries@monashhealth.org
Coburg
John Fawkner Private Hospital (Private) 275 Moreland Road, Coburg Contact: (03) 9385 2500 Fax: (03) 9385 2170
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Cranbourne
Cranbourne Integrated Care Monash Health 140 -154 Sladen Street; Cranbourne Contact: (03) 5990 6789 Fax: (03) 5990 6350
East Ringwood
Maroondah Hospital – Eastern Health Davey Drive, Ground Floor Outpatients. East Ringwood Contact: (03) 9879 1570 Email: outpatients@easternhealth.org.au
Eltham
(Dr.Tony, Dr Michealson, and weakly visiting Hepatitis C nurse Rhonda O’Malley) 1170 Main Road, Eltham. Contact: (03) 9496 6846 Fax: 9496 2732 Email: Rhonda.o’malley@austin.org.au
Epping
Northern Hospital 185 Cooper Street, Epping Contact: (03) 8405 8000 Fax: (03) 8405 8761 Epping Medical Centre 230 Cooper Street Contact: (03) 8401 1777 Fax: (03) 8401 1788
Fitzroy
St. Vincent’s Hospital 35 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy Contact; (03) 9288 3771 Fax: (03) 9288 3489
Footscray
Western Hospital 148 Gordon Street, Footscray Contact: (03) 8345 6666 Fax: (03) 8345 6856
Frankston
Peninsula Liver Clinic (Private) 141 Cranbourne Road, Frankston Contact: (03) 9770 0139 Fax: 9781 2644
Geelong
University Hospital Geelong 292-322 Ryrie Street, Geelong Contact: (03) 4215 1396 Fax: (03) 4215 1385 155 Guthridge Parade, Sale.
Gippsland
Central Gippsland Health Services 155 Guthridge Parade, Sale Contact: (03) 5143 8600
Heidelberg
Austin Liver Clinic 145 Studley Road, Heidelberg Contact: (03) 9496 2787 Fax: (03) 9496 7232
Malvern
Victorian HepatoPancreato Biliary Surgery Group. (Private) 29/183 Wattletree Road, Malvern Contact: (03) 9508 1222 Fax: (03) 9509 1522 Cabrini Hospital (Private) 183 Wattletree Road, Malvern Contact: (03) 9508 1222 Fax: (03) 9508 1098
Maroondah
Maroondah Hospital – Eastern Health (Outpatients) Ground Floor, Davey Drive, Ringwood East Contact: (03) 9895 3333 Fax: (03) 9895 4852
Melbourne
Alfred Centre, Gastroenterology Department Ground Floor, 99 commercial Road, Melbourne Contact: (03) 9076 2223 Fax: (03) 9076 2194 Melbourne City Gastroenterology (Private) Mailing address: Melbourne City Gastroenterology PO Box 2159 Royal Melbourne Hospital Contact: 1300 700 789
Melbourne East
Melbourne GI & Endoscopy (Private) 130-132 Grey Street, East Melbourne Contact: (03) 9417 5306
Mildura
Mildura Base Hospital 231-237 Thirteenth Street, Mildura Contact: (03) 5022 3333 Fax: (03) 5033 3228
Mitcham
Mitcham Private Hospital – consulting rooms (Private) 23 Doncaster East Road, Mitcham Contact: (03) 9210 3146 Fax: (03) 9210 3139
Moonee ponds
Moonee ponds Gastrolab (Private) Suite 1, Level 1, 28 Young Street, Moonee Ponds Contact: (03) 9331 3122 Fax: (03) 9331 3133 Moonee Valley Specialist Centre (Private) Private Facility, including Fibroscan. Ground Leve| 767 Mt Alexander Road Moonee Ponds Contact: (03) 9372 0372
Parkville
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Infection Diseases Department, OPD Ninth floor, 300 Grattan Street (Corner of Royal Parade), Parkville Contact: (03) 9342 7212 Fax: (03) 9342 7277
Contacts
Community-based Hepatitis C Treatment Services Prahran
Alfred Hospital, Infectious Diseases Department 55 Commercial Road, Prahran Contact: (03) 9076 6081 Fax: (03) 9076 6528
Preston
Victorian Aboriginal Health Services Wednesdays 9.00-4.00pm 238-250 Plenty Road Preston Phone: 9403 3300 for an appointment or drop in.
Richmond
The Epworth Centre (needs referrals) Suite 7.6 Erin Street, Richmond Contact: (03) 9428 9908 Fax: (03) 9421 3432
Shepparton
Community based treatment clinics have been developed to enable more people to access treatment in their local communities.
Ballarat
Ballarat Community Health 12 Lilburne Street, Lucas Contact: (03) 5338 4500 Fax: (03) 5338 0520
Braybrook
Braybrook Community Health Service Cohealth Churchill Avenue, Braybrook
Coburg
St. Kyrollos Family Clinic 2A Moore Street, Coburg Contact: (03) 9386 0900 Fax: (03) 9386 5388
Kensington
cohealth – Kensington Medical Clinic, 12 Gower Street, Kensington VIC 3031 Contact: (03) 8378 1600
Melbourne
Living Room, Youth Projects (Hepatitis programs – Thursdays every fortnight) 7 – 9 Hosier Lane, Melbourne Contact: (03) 9662 4488 Fax: (03) 9662 4400 Email: living@youthprojects.org.au
North Melbourne
Harm Reduction Victoria (HRV) 128 Peel Street, North Melbourne Contact: (03) 9329 1500 Email: admin@hrvic.org.au
Nunawading
Goulburn Valley Health Outpatients Graham Street, Shepparton Telephone: (03) 5832 3600 Fax: (03) 5831 6032
Coburg
Uniting Care Re Gen 26 Jessie Street, Coburg Contact: (03) 9386 2876
Nunawading Clinic 176 Springvale Road, Nunawading Contact: (03) 9878 9191 Fax: (03) 9877 2089
Springvale
Collingwood
Richmond
Springvale Community Health – Monash Medical Centre 55 Buckingham Avenue, Springvale Contact: (03) 9594 3088
Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital Private Consulting Suites 3 and 4 Princes Highway, Traralgon West. Contact: (03) 5173 8111 Fax: (03) 5173 8097 Wantirna
Knox Private Hospital – consulting rooms (Private) 262 Mountain Highway, Wantirna Contact: (03) 9210 7300 Fax: (03) 9210 7301
Warrnambool
Western Region Alcohol and Drug Centre (limited hepatitis treatment services) 172 Merri Street, Warrnambool Contact: 1300 009 723 Fax: (03) 5564 5700
West Heidelberg
Banyule Community Health Centre 21 Alamein Road, West Heidelberg. Contact: (03) 9496 6846
Wodonga
Murray Valley (Private) Hospital Nordsvan Drive, Wodonga. Contact: (02) 6056 3366 Fax: (02) 6056 3466 Gateway Health 155 High Street, Wodonga Contact: (02) 6022 8888 Fax: (02) 6024 5792
coHealth (formerly North Yarra Community Health) 365 Hoddle Street, Collingwood Contact: (03) 9411 3555 Fax: (03) 9411 4300 Email: info@cohealth.org.au Cohealth INNERSPACE 4 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Cranbourne
Cranbourne Intergrated Care Centre – Monash Health (Hepatitis C outreach treatment clinic as part of Southern Health Services) 140 -154 Sladen Street, Cranbourne Contact: (03) 5990 6789
Fitzroy
cohealth 75 Brunswick Street Fitzroy Contact: (03) 9411 3555 Fax: (03) 9411 3500
Footscray
Health Works 4 –12 Buckley Street, Footscray Contact: (03) 9362 8100 Fax: (03) 9362 8180
Footscray
cohealth Joslin clinic 575 Barkly Street, West Footscray Contact: (03) 9912 2000
Frankston
SHARPS, NSP + community health 20 Young Street, Frankston Contact: 1800 642 287
North Richmond Community Health (Hepatitis C nurse visits every Wednesday) 23 Lennox Street, Richmond Contact: (03) 9418 9800 Fax: (03) 9428 2269 Email: nrch@nrch.com.au
St. Kilda
Barkley Street Medical Centre 60 Barkley Street, St. Kilda Contact: (03) 9534 0531 Fax: (03) 9534 6159 FIRST STEP 42 Carlisle Street, St Kilda Contact: (03) 9537 3177 Fax: (03) 9537 0133 Access Health 31 Grey Street, St Kilda Contact: (03) 9076 6081 St Vincent’s Integrated Hepatitis C Service 60 Barkly Street. St Kilda Contact: (03) 9534 0531
Warragul, Morwell, Sale
La Trobe Community Health Service, Hepatitis C Nurse 1800 242 696
Werribee
Werribee Mercy Hospital consulting suites 300 Princess Highway, Werribee Contact: (03) 9386 2259 Fax: 8754 3110
Wodonga
Gateway Health Service 155 High Street Wodonga VIC 3690 (03) 5723 2000
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Contacts
Needle and Syringe Programs Alexandra
Alexandra Community Health Services – Needle Exchange Program 12 Cooper Street, Alexandra Contact: (03) 5772 0900 Fax: (03) 5772 0919 Email: alexandrachs@humehealth.org.au
Altona Meadows
Isis Primary Care 330 Queens Street, Altona Meadows Contact: (03) 8368 3000 Fax: (03) 9360 7534
Apollo Bay
Otway Health & Community Services 75 McLachlan Street, Apollo Bay Contact: (03) 5237 8500 Fax: (03) 5237 6172 Email: otwayhealth@swarh.vic.gov.au
Ararat
Priceline Pharmacy 119 Barkly Street, Ararat Contact: (03)5352 1007 Fax: (03) 5352 2115
Bairnsdale
Bairnsdale Community Health Centre – Needle and Syringe Program 48 Ross Street, Bairnsdale Contact: (03) 5152 0222 Fax: (03) 5152 1500 Email: email@brhs.com.au Bairnsdale Community Health Centre – Emergency Department offer needles 24/7 122 Day Street, Bairnsdale Contact: (03) 5150 3333 Fax: (03) 5152 6784 Email: email@brhs.com.au
Bendigo
Bendigo Central Secondary NSP Bendigo Community Health Service 171 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo Contact: (03) 5448 1600 After hours: Bendigo Community Health Service Mobile Outreach NSP Tuesday-Saturday 7.30-10.45pm Contact: 1800 636 514 Bendigo Community Health Service Mobile Drug Safety Worker 13 Helm Street, Kangaroo Flat Contact: 0409 326 460
Bentleigh East
Bentleigh Bayside Community Health, Glen Eira Site 2A Gardeners Road, Bentleigh East Contact: (03) 9575 5333 Fax: (03) 9579 3623 Email: info@bbch.org.au
Caulfield
Caulfield Community Health Service – Alfred Health 260 Kooyong Road, Caulfield Contact (03) 9076 6666 Fax: (03) 9046 4060 Email: access@cgmc.org.au
Chelsea
Braybrook
Churchill
cohealth, Braybrook Community Centre 107-139 Churchill Avenue, Braybrook Contact: (03) 9334 6699 Fax: (03) 9312 3507
Broadmeadows
Belmont
Merri Community Health Services 11 Glenlyon Road, Brunswick Contact: (03) 9367 6711 Fax: (03) 9387 5417 Email: mchs@mchs.org.au
Brunswick
Barwon Health – Needle and Syringe Program 1-17 Reynolds Road, Belmont Contact: (03) 4215 6800 Fax: (03) 4215 6839 Email: receptionbelmont@barwonhealth.org.au
Camperdown
Benalla
Cann Valley Bush Nursing Centre 27 Monaro Highway, Cann River Contact: (03) 5152 6210 Fax: (03) 5158 6409
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Castlemaine District Community Health Centre 13 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine Contact: (03) 5479 1000 Fax: (03) 5472 3221 Email: email@cdch.com.au
Priceline Pharmacy Blackburn 109 Canterbury Road, Blackburn South Contact: (03) 9877 2525 Fax: (03) 9877 2522
Belgrave
Benalla Community Health 45 Coster Street, Benalla Contact: (03) 5761 4222 Fax: (03) 5761 4502 Email: communityhealth@benallahealth.org.au
Castlemaine
Central Bayside Community Health Service 3/1 The Strand, Chelsea Contact: (03) 9782 7633 Fax: (03) 9782 7600 Email: info@cbchs.org.au
Blackburn South
Dianella Community Health 42-48 Coleraine Street, Broadmeadows Contact: (03) 8301 8888 Fax: (03) 8301 8889
Inspiro Community Health Service 1624 Burwood Highway, Belgrave Contact: (03) 9738 8801 Fax: (03) 9739 4689 Email: hello@inspiro.org.au
Carlton North
cohealth, Carlton North Centre 622 Lygon Street, Carlton North Contact: (03) 9349 7333 Fax: (03) 9349 7300 Email: info@cohealth.org.au
Manifold Place Community Health Centre 140 Manifold Street, Camperdown Contact: (03) 5593 1892 Fax: (03) 5593 2010 Email: MPlace2@swh.net.au
Cann River
Carlton
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre 580 Swanston Street, Carlton Contact: (03) 9341 6200 Fax: (03) 9341 6279 Email: enquiries@mshc.org.au
Latrobe Community Health Service 20 - 24 Philip Parade, Churchill Contact: 1800 242 696 Fax: (03) 8746 1100 Email: info@lchs.com.au
Cobram
Cobram District Health 24 - 32 Broadway Street, Cobram Contact: (03) 5871 0777 Fax: (03) 5872 2406
Coburg
Merri Community Health Services 93 Bell Street, Coburg Contact: (03) 9350 4000 Fax: (03) 9350 1518 Email: mch@mchs.org.au
Cockatoo
Monash Health Community Services 7 - 17 McBride Street, Cockatoo Contact: (03) 5968 7000 Fax: (03) 5968 7030 Email: MHCAccess@monashhealth.org
Colac
Colac Area Health 2-28 Connor Street, Colac Contact: (03) 5232 5100 Email: dmelville@cah.vic.gov.au
Collingwood
cohealth 4 Johnston Street, Collingwood Contact: (03) 9468 2800 Fax: (03) 9417 1499 Email: info@innerspace.org.au 365 Hoddle Street, Collingwood Contact: (03) 9411 4333 Fax: (03) 9411 4300 Email: info@cohealth.org.au
Corio
Barwon Health - Needle Syringe Program 2 Gellibrand Street, Corio Contact: (03) 4215 7100 Fax: (03) 4215 7193
Corryong
Upper Murray Health and Community Services 20 Kiell Street, Corryong Contact: (03) 6076 3200 Fax: (03) 6076 1739 Email: Enquiries@umhcs.vic.gov.au
Eltham
Nillumbik Health 917 Main Road, Eltham Contact: (03) 9430 9100 Fax: (03) 9431 0339 Email: nchs@nillumbikhealth.org.au
Epping
Plenty Valley Community Health 187 Cooper Street, Epping Contact: (03) 9409 8787 Fax: (03) 9408 9508
Euroa
Euroa Health 36 Kennedy Street, Euroa Contact: (03) 5795 0200 Fax: (03) 5795 0240 Email: eh@euroahealth.com.au
Fitzroy
Cranbourne
Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre 54-62 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy Contact: (03) 8413 8413 Fax: (03) 9416 3420 Email: info_group@turningpoint.org.au
Dandenong
cohealth 75 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Contact: (03) 9411 3555 Fax: (03) 9411 3500 Email: info@cohealth.org.au
Monash Health Community 140 - 154 Sladen Street, Cranbourne Contact: (03) 5990 6789 Fax: (03) 5990 6328 Community Access Partnership (CAP) 84 Foster Street, Dandenong Contact: (03) 9792 7630 Fax: (03) 9794 0979 Email: SEADS@monashhealth.org.au
Fitzroy North
Deer Park
Footscray
Graeme Wurm Pharmacy 104 Station Road, Deer Park Contact: (03)9363 4204 Fax (03) 9363 3342
Drysdale
Bellarine Community Health 21 Palmerstone Street, Drysdale Contact: (03) 5251 2291 Fax: (03) 5258 0864
Eaglehawk
Bendigo Community Health Services, Eaglehawk 3 Seymoure Street Eaglehawk Contact: (03) 5434 4300 Fax: (03) 5434 4355 Email: bchs@bchs.com.au
Echuca
Echuca Regional Health 226 Service Street, Echuca Contact: (03) 5485 5000 Fax: (03) 5482 5478 Email: erhexec@erh.org.au
Silverii’s Pharmacy 333 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North Contact: (03) 9481 0671 Fax: (03) 9482 6855 Health Works, cohealth 4 -12 Buckley Street, Footscray Contact: (03) 9362 8100 Fax: (03) 8362 8180
Frankston
Frankston City Council 30 Davey Street, Frankston Contact: (03) 9784 1888 Fax: (03) 9784 1094 Frankston Integrated Health Centre 12-32 Hastings Road, Frankston Contact: (03) 9784 8100 Fax: (03) 9784 8149 Southern Hepatitis/HIV/AIDS Resources & Prevention Services (SHARPS) 20 Young Street, Frankston Contact: (03) 9781 1622 Fax: (03) 9781 3669 Email: customer.relation@phcn.vic.gov.au
Geelong
Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative 62 Morgan Street, Geelong North Contact: (03) 5277 2038 Fax: (03) 5277 3537 Email: healthservice@wathaurong.org.au
Glenroy
Youth Projects – Foot Patrol Needle and Syringe Program 6 Hartington Street, Glenroy Contact: (03) 9304 9100 Fax: (03) 9304 9111 admin@youthprojects.org.au
Gisborne
Macedon Ranges Health 5 Neal Street, Gisborne Contact: (03) 5428 0300 Fax: (03) 5428 0399 Email: healthcare@mrh.org.au
Greensborough
Banyule Community Health Service, Greensborough Centre – Needle Syringe Program Unit 3, 25-33 Grimshaw Street, Greensborough Contact: (03) 9433 5111 Fax: (03) 9435 8922 Email: banyule@bchc.org.au
Hastings
Hastings Community Health Service 185 High Street, Hastings Contact: (03) 5971 9100 Fax: (03) 5971 9106
Hawthorn
Swinburne University Health Services Level 4, George Swinburne Building, 34 Wakefield Street, Hawthorn Contact: (03) 9214 8483 Fax: (03) 9818 7548 Email: healthservice@swin.edu.au
Healesville
Healesville & District Hospital – Needle Exchange Program 377 Maroondah Highway, Healesville Contact: (03) 5962 4300 Fax: (03) 5962 3429
Heidelberg West
Banyule Community Health Service – Needle Syringe Program 21 Alamein Road, Heidelberg West Contact: (03) 9450 2000 Fax: (03) 9459 5808 Email: banyule@bchs.org.au
Horsham
Wimmera Health Care Group 83 Baillie Street, Horsham Contact: (03) 5381 9111 Fax: (03) 5381 9196 Email info@whcg.org.au
Kangaroo Flat
Bendigo Community Health Services, Kangaroo Flat Site 13 Helm Street, Kangaroo Flat Contact: (03) 5430 0500 Fax: (03) 5430 0544 Email: bchs@bchs.com.au
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Contacts Kyneton
Cobaw Community Health Service 47 High Street, Kyneton Contact: (03) 5421 1666 Fax: (03) 5422 2161 Email: admin@cobaw.org.au
Lakes Entrance
Mildura
Sunraysia Community Health Service 137 Thirteenth Street, Mildura Contact: (03) 5022 5444 Fax: (03) 5022 5445 Email: schs@schs.com.au
Moe
Pakenham
Monash Health Community 66-70 Princess Highway, Pakenham Contact: (03) 5941 0500 Fax: (03) 5941 0542 Email: mhcaccess@monashhealth.org
Portarlington
Gippsland Lakes Community Health Centre 18-26 Jemmeson Street, Lakes Entrance Contact: (03) 5155 8300 Fax: (03) 5155 4057 Email: contact@glch.org.au
Latrobe Community Health Services 42-44 Fowler Street, Moe Contact: 1800 242 696 Fax: (03) 5127 7002 Email: info@lchs.com.au
Bellarine Community Health 39 Fenwick Street, Portarlington Contact: (03) 5258 6140 Fax: (03) 5258 0864 Email: intake@bch.org.au
Leongatha
Mornington
Portland
Gippsland Southern Health Services Koonwarra Road, Leongatha Contact: (03) 5667 5555 Fax: (03) 5667 5516 Email: info@gshs.com.au
Mornington Community Information and Support Centre 320 Main Street, Mornington Contact: (03) 5975 1644 Fax: (03) 5975 5423 Email: manager@mcisc.org.au
Lilydale
Morwell
Inspiro Community Health Service 17 Clarke Street, Lilydale Contact: (03) 9738 8801 Fax: (03) 9739 4689 Email: hello@inspiro.org.au
Latrobe Community Health Service 81-87 Buckley Street, Morwell Contact: 1800 242 696 Fax: (03) 5136 5450 Email: info@lchs.com.au
Lochsport
Myrtleford
Loch Sport Community Health Centre 1 National Park Road, Loch Sport Contact: (03) 5146 0349 Fax: (03) 5146 0780 Email: lochsport@cghs.com.au
Lucas
Ballarat Community Health Centre – Needle Syringe Program 12 Lilburne Street, Lucas Contact: (03) 5338 4500 Fax: (03) 5332 6617 Email: info@bchc.org.au
Mansfield
Mansfield District Hospital 53 Highett Street, Mansfield Contact: (03) 5775 8800 Fax: (03) 5775 1352 Email: reception.main@mdh.org.au
Maryborough
Community Services Maryborough 75-87 Clarendon Street, Maryborough Contact: (03) 5461 0400 Fax: (03) 5461 4489
Melbourne
Melbourne City Council 200 Little Collins Street, Melbourne Contact: (03) 9658 9658 Fax: (03) 9658 9685
Melton
Djerriwarrh Health Service Yuille Street, Melton Contact: (03) 8746 1100 Fax: (03) 9743 8640
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Gateway Health 32 Smith Street, Myrtleford Contact: (03) 5731 3500 Fax: (03) 5751 1822 Email: info@gatewayhealth.org.au
Newcomb
Newcomb Community Health Centre – Needle Syringe Program 104-108 Bellarine Highway, Newcomb Contact: (03) 4215 7520 Fax: (03) 4215 7795 Email: receptionnewcomb@barwonhealth.org.au
Northcote
Darebin District Health Service 42 Separation Street, Northcote Contact: (03) 9403 1200 Fax: (03) 9482 3690 Email: info@dch.org.au
Nowa Nowa
Nowa Nowa Community Health 6 Bridge Street, Nowa Nowa Contact: (03) 5155 7294 Fax: (03) 5155 7296 Email: email@nnch.org.au
Orbost
Orbost Regional Health 104-107 Boundary Road, Orbost Contact: (03) 5154 6666 Fax: (03) 5154 2366 Email: orh@orh.com.au
Portland District Health 141-151 Bentinck Street, Portland Contact: (03) 5521 0333 Fax: (03) 5521 8162 Email: pdh@swarh.vic.gov.au
Prahran
Inner South Community health Needle Exchange Program 240 Malvern Road, Prahran Contact: (03) 9525 1300 Fax: (03) 9521 2474 Email: adminenquiries@ischs.org.au
Reservoir East
Darebin Community Health 125 Blake Street, Reservoir East Contact: (03) 8470 1111 Fax: (03) 8470 1107 Email: info@dch.org.au
Richmond
North Richmond Community Health Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) 23 Lennox Street, Richmond Contact: (03) 9418 9800 Fax: (03) 9428 2269
Ringwood
EACH Ltd 46 Warrandyte Road, Ringwood Contact: 1300 003 224 Fax: (03) 9870 4688 Email: info@each.com.au
Ringwood East EACH Ltd 75 Patterson Street, Ringwood East Contact: (03) 9837 3999 Fax: (03) 9879 6356 Email: info@each.com.au Rosebud
Southern Peninsula Community Support and Information Centre 878 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud Contact: (03) 5986 1285 Fax: (03) 5982 2601 Email: admin@spcsic.org
Rosedale
Roosedale Community Health Service 2- 8 Cansick Street, Rosedale Contact: (03) 5199 2333 Fax: (03) 5199 2980 Email: rosedale@cghs.com.au
Sale
Central Gippsland Health Service, Divison of Community Care Palmerston Street, Sale Contact: (03) 5143 8800 Fax: (30) 5143 8890 Emaol: cs.reception@cghs.com.au
San Remo
San Remo Community Services 1 Back Beach Road, San Remo Contact: (03) 5671 9200 Fax: (03) 5678 5595
Sebastopol
Ballarat Community Health Centre Doctors Clinic – Needle and Syringe Program 260 Vickers Street, Sebastopol Contact: (03) 5338 4585
Shepparton
Primary Care Connect 399 Wyndham Street, Shepparton Contact: (03) 5823 3200 Fax: (03) 5823 3299 Email: support@primarycareconnect.com.au
South Melbourne
Inner South Community Health Services 341 Coventry Street, South Melbourne Contact: (03) 9690 9144 Fax: (03) 9696 7228 Email: adminenquiries@ischs.org.au
South Yarra
Victorian AIDS Council/ Gay Men’s Health Centre 6 Claremont Street, South Yarra Contact: (03) 9865 6700 Fax: (03) 9826 2700 Email: enquiries@vac.org.au
Springvale
Monash Health Community 55 Buckingham Avenue, Springvale Contact: (03) 8558 9080 OR (03) 8558 9000 Fax: (03) 8558 9011 Email: intakeGDCHS@southernhealth.org.au
St. Albans
Isis Primary Care 1 Andrea Street, St. Albans Contact: (03) 9296 1200 Fax: (03) 9366 2086
Stawell
Stawell Health & Community Centre 8-22 Patrick Street, Stawell Contact: (03) 5358 7400 Fax: (03) 5358 4113 Email: gch@grampianscommunityhealth.org.au
St. Kilda
Inner South Community Health Services 18 Mitford Street, St. Kilda Contact: (03) 9534 0981 Fax: (03) 9525 3730 Resourcing Health and Education in the Sex industry (RhED) 10 Inkerman Street, St. Kilda Contact: 1800 458 752 Fax: (03) 9525 4492 Email: sexworker@sexworker.org.au Salvation Army Health Information Exchange 29 Grey Street, St. Kilda Contact: (03) 9536 7703 Fax: (03) 9536 7778
Sunbury
Sunbury Community Health Centre 12-28 Macedon Street, Sunbury Contact: (03) 9744 4455 Fax: (03) 9744 6777 Email: admin@sunburychc.org.au
Timboon
Timboon & District Healthcare Services 21 Hospital Road, Timboon Contact: (03) 5558 6000 Fax: (03) 5598 3565 Email: timboon@swarh.voc.gov.au
Torquay
Torquay Community Health Centre – Needle and Syringe Program 100 Surf Coast Highway, Torquay Contact: (03) 4215 7800 Fax: (03) 4215 7843 Email: chrisinfoaccess@barwonhealth.or.au
Traralgon
Latrobe Community Health Services Seymour Street, Traralgon Contact: 1800 242 696 Fax: (03) 5171 1470 Email: info@lchs.com.au
Wangaratta
Gateway Health 45-47 Mackay Street, Wangaratta Contact: (03) 5723 2000 Fax: (03) 5722 2313 Email: info@gatewayhealth.org.au Northeast Health 35-47 Green Street, Wangaratta Contact: (03) 5722 5239 Fax: (03) 5722 4382 Email: enquiries@nhw.hume.org.au
Warragul
West Gippsland Healthcare Group Community Services Division 31-35 Gladstone Street, Warragul Contact: (03) 5624 3500 Fax: (03) 5624 3555 Email: info@wghg.conm.au
Warrnambool
Brophy Family & Youth Services 210 Timor Street, Warrnambool Contact: (03) 5561 8888 Fax: (03) 5561 8816 Email: admin@brophy.org.au Warrnambool Community Health Koroit Street, Warrnambool Contact: (03) 5563 4000 Fax: (03) 5563 1669
Wendouree
Ballarat Community Health Centre – Needle and Syringe Program 10 Learmonth Road, Wendouree Contact: (03) 5338 4500 Fax: (03) 5339 3044 Email: info@bchc.org.au
Wodonga
Gateway Community Health, Wodonga 155 High Street, Wodonga Contact: (02) 6022 8888 Fax: (02) 6024 5792 Email: info@gatewayhealth.org.au
Wonthaggi
Bass Coast Health – Needle Syringe Program 237 Graham Street, Wonthaggi Contact: (03) 5671 3333 Fax: (03) 5671 3300
Yarra Junction
Yarra Valley Community Health – Needle Exchange Program 2475 Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction Contact: 1300 342 255 Fax: (03) 5962 3429
Yarram
Yarram and District Health Centre Bakers Community Services Centre 121 Commercial Road, Yarram Contact: (03) 5182 0270 Fax: (03) 5182 0295 Email: youth+familyservices@ydhs.com.au
Yarrawonga
Yarrawonga Health 33 Piper Street, Yarrawonga Contact: (03) 5743 8111 Fax: (03) 5743 8118
Yea
Yea & District Memorial Hospital 45 Station Street, Yea Contact: (03) 5736 0400 Fax: (03) 5797 2391
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Contacts
Alcohol and Drug Programs, Primary Health Care Centres (for PWID), Regional Services Bayswater
Anglicare Victoria 666 Mountain Highway, Bayswater Contact: (03) 9721 3688
Cobaw
Cobaw Community Health Service 47 High Street, Kyneton Contact: (03) 5421 1666 Fax: (03) 5422 2161 Email: admin@cobaw.org.au
Craigieburn
Anglicare Victoria 59 Craigieburn Road, Craigieburn Contact: (03) 9483 2401
Fitzroy
Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) Level 1, 131 Johnston Street, Fitzroy Contact: (03) 9415 8881 Fax: (03) 9415 8882 Email: reception@ysas.org.au Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre 54-62 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy Contact: (03) 8413 8413 Fax: (03) 9416 3420 Email: info_group@turningpoint.org.au
Frankston
Anglicare Victoria Level 2 / 60-64 Wells Street, Frankston Contact: (03) 9781 6700 Frankston Integrated Health Centre 12-32 Hastings Road, Frankston Contact: (03) 9784 8100 Fax: (03) 9784 8149
Geelong
Barwon Health – Alcohol and Drug Services 40 Little Malop Street, Geelong Contact: (03) 5273 4000 Fax: (03) 5273 4044
Lucas
Ballarat Community Health Centre – Mobile Drug Support Worker 12 Lilburne Street, Lucas Contact: (03) 5338 4500 Fax: (03) 5332 6617 Email: info@bchc.org.au
Melbourne
Druginfo Level 12, 607 Bourke Street, Melbourne Contact: 1300 85 85 84 Fax: (03) 8672 5983
Mildura
Drug Treatment Services 137 Thirteenth Street, Mildura Contact: (03) 5021 7694 Fax: (03) 5021 7695 Email: schs@schs.com.au
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Portland
Portland District Health 141-151 Bentinck Street, Portland Contact: (03) 5521 0333 Fax: (03) 5521 8162 Email: pdh@swarh.vic.gov.au
Preston
Anglicare Victoria 42 Mary Street, Preston Contact: (03) 8470 9999
Richmond
Drug Safety Program 23 Lennox Street, Richmond Contact: (03) 9418 9800 Fax: (03) 9428 2269
Healesville
Yarra Valley Community Health Service (Once per month clinic- hepatis clinic Contact: 1300 130 381 Fax: (03) 5962 3429
Lucas
Ballarat Community Health 12 Lilburn Street, lucas Telephone: (03) 5338 4500 Fax: (03) 5338 0520 Email: info@bchc.org.au
Mildura
Werribee
Sunraysia Community Health Centre 137 Thirteenth Street, Mildura Contact: (03) 5022 5444 Fax: (03) 5022 5445 Email: schs@schs.com.au
Primary Health Care Centres (for PWID)
Moe Community Health Centre 81-87 Buckley Street, Morwell Contact: 1800 242 696 Fax: (03) 5136 5450 Email: info@lchs.com.au
Melbourne
Portland
Anglicare Victoria 2 Market Road, Werribee Contact: (03) 9731 2500
Living Room, Youth Projects (Hepatitis programs – Thursdays every fortnight) 7 – 9 Hosier Lane, Melbourne Contact: (03) 9662 4488 Fax: (03) 9662 4400 Email: living@youthprojects.org.au
Mornington
The Bays Hospital Vale Street, Mornington Contact: (03) 5975 2009 Fax: (03) 5975 2373
Regional Services
These contacts are able to provide information about local viral hepatitis related services as well as active support groups.
Bendigo
Bendigo Health Lucan Street, Bendigo Contact: (03) 5454 6000 Fax: (03) 5454 8419
Eaglehawk
Eaglehawk Community House 19 Bright Street, Eaglehawk
Geelong
Barwon Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services 40 Little Malop Street, Geelong Contact: (03) 4215 8792 Fax: (03) 4215 8793 Jigsaw Youth Health Service Yarra Street, Geelong Contact: 1300 094 187 Fax: (03) 4215 8298
Morwell
Glenelg Southern Grampians (Drug Treatment Service) Bentinck Street, Portland Contact: (03) 5521 0350 Fax: (03) 5521 0625 Email: pdhspecialistcentre@swarh.vic.gov.au Dhauwurd-Wurrung Elderly and Community Health Service (Community Health Centre) 18 Wellington Rd, Portland VIC 3305 Contact: (03) 5521 7535 Fax: (03) 55211299
Shepparton
Primary Care Connect 399 Wyndham Street, Shepparton Telephone: (03) 5823 3200 Fax: (03) 5823 3299
Tatura
Tatura Medical Centre 4 Thomson Street, Tatura Telephone: (03) 5824 1244 Fax: (03) 5824 2551
Torquay
Surf Coast Health Service - Barwon Health 100 Surfcoast Hwy, Torquay Telephone: (03) 4215 7850 Fax: (03) 4215 7889
Traralgon
Latrobe Regional Hospital Princess Highway, Traralgon Contact: (03) 5173 8000 Fax: (03) 5173 8444
Contacts
Related Health Services, Sexual Health, and Rural Services Wangaratta
Gateway Health 45-47 Mackay Street, Wangaratta Telephone: (03) 5723 2000 Fax: (03) 5722 2313 Email: info@gatewayhealth.org.au
Warragul
West Gippsland Hospital Landsborough Street, Warragul Contact: (03) 5623 0611 Fax: (03) 5622 6403 Email: info@wghg.com.au
Warrnambool
Western Region Alcohol and Drug Centre (WRAD) 172 Merri Street Warnambool 1300 009 723 Fax: (03) 5564 5700 Email: wrad@wrad.org.au
Wendouree
Ballarat Oncology and Haematology Services 1117 Howitt Street, Wendouree Contact: (03) 5339 8000 Fax: (03) 5339 8111
Wodonga
Gateway Health 155 High Street, Wodonga Contact: (02) 6022 8888 Fax: (02) 6024 5792 Email: info@gatewayhealth.org.au
Carlton
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (Information on state and federal equal opportunity laws and programs) Level 3, 204 Lygon Street, Calrton Telephone 1300 891 848 Fax: 1300 891 858 Email: information@veohrc.vic.gov.au Web: www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au
Hampton East
Haemophilia Foundation Victoria 13 Keith Street, Hampton East, VIC 3188 Contact: (03) 9555 7595 Fax: (03) 95557375 Email: info@hfv.org.au
Prahran
Carlton
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre 580 Swanston Street, Carlton Contact: (03) 9341 6200 Free call: 1800 032 017 Web: www.mshc.org.au
Melbourne
Red Aware Level 2 South Tower 485 la Trobe Street, Melbourne Contact: (03) 9670 6171 Email: resources@yeah.org.au Era Health 563 Bourke Street, Melbourne Contact: (03) 9944 6200 Fax: (03) 9944 6290 Email: info@erahealth.com.au
Alfred– HIV:Hepatitis:STI Education and Resource Centre (Statewide resource centre on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmissible Infections) 8 Moubray Street, Prahran Telephone: (03) 9076 6993 Fax: (03) 9076 5294 Email: erc@alfred.org.au Web: www.alfredhealth.org.au
Richmond
Melbourne
Southbank
Multicultural Health and Support Services (HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmissible infections) 23 Lennox Street, Richmond. Telephone: (03) 9418 9929 Fax: (03) 9421 4662 Email: enquiries@ceh.org.au Go to: www.ceh.org.au/mhss.aspx Straight Arrow Suite 1, 111 Coventry Street, Southbank Contact: (03) 9863 9414 Fax: (03) 9863 9421 Email: information@straightarrows.org.au
Health Services Commissioner 26th Floor, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne Free call: 1300 582 113 Fax: (03) 9032 3111 Email: hsc@dhhs.vic.gov.au Cancer Council Victoria – Living with Cancer Education Program 615 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne Contact: 13 11 20 Fax: (03) 9514 6800 Email: enquiries@cancervic.org.au
Victorian AIDS Council 6 Claremont Street, South Yarra Contact: (03) 9865 6700 Fax: (03) 9826 2700 Email: enquiries@vac.org.au
North Melbourne
St. Kilda
Southbank
Rural Services
Sexual Health
Barwon Health – BRASH Clinic Outpatients Annexe, 66 Bellerine Street, Geelong Contact: (03) 4215 0000 Fax: (03) 4215 1378
Harm Reduction Victoria (HRV) 128 Peel Street, North Melbourne Contact: (03) 9329 1500 Fax: (03) 9329 1501 Living Positive Victoria Suite 1 / 111 Coventry Street, Southbank Contact: (03) 9863 8733 Email: info@livingpositivevictoria@org.au
Box Hill
Family Planning Victoria 901 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill Contact: (03) 9257 0100 Fax: (03) 9257 0112 Email: fpv@fpv.org.au
South Yarra
Royal District Nursing Services (RDNS) 31 Alma Road, St. Kilda Contact: 1300 33 44 55
Geelong
Portland
Portland District Health Bentinck Street, Portland Contact: (03) 5521 0333 Fax: (03) 5521 0388
Warrnambool
Warrnambool Base Hospital Ryot Street, Warrnambool Contact: (03) 5563 1666 Fax: (03) 5563 1660
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