EP 29 - Hepatitis Awareness Week 2021: Eliminating Hep C from prisons and the community

Sydney Sexual Health Centre

For Hepatitis Awareness Week 2021 we are exploring some of the great work being done to meet the goal of eliminating Hep C in NSW by 2028. Marian Bloomfield from the Justice and Forensic Mental Health Network gives us an insight into what it is like working towards eliminating Hep C in prisons, including the nurse-led model they use and supporting patients moving back in the community. Julie Page from the Nepean Blue Mountain Local Health District Needle and Syringe Program then shares some of the challenges in finding the 'hard to reach' people who still require treatment, information GPs need to know, and the barriers to accessing care that still need to be overcome. To stay up to date with the latest information in sexual health, you can follow us on social media: www.facebook.com/SydneySHC twitter.com/SydneySHC www.linkedin.com/company/sydney-s…al-health-centre Host: Thomas Munro (he/him) Guests: Marian Bloomfield, Julie Page We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast was recorded. We pay our respects to the elders past, present, and emerging wherever you are listening from.