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AFTER a long campaign by groups lobbying for hepatitis C drug listings, a landmark treatment will become more affordable this weekend when it is listed on the PBS.
CONSUMER health groups have applauded the federal government for adding two landmark hepatitis C drugs to the PBS, but warned it must improve its subsidy system to make more expensive life-saving drugs accessible.
THE rift between the federal government and the pharmaceuticals industry over delays putting Pharmaceuticals Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)-recommended products on the PBS could soon reopen, with warnings of a “vocal” campaign if two key treatments remain unlisted.
LIVER cancer is on a par with melanoma as the fastest increasing cause of cancer death in Australia, prompting new formal diagnosis and treatment targets for hepatitis B and C to be set by infectious disease experts.
NO HIGH profile Australians have been willing to become the face of hepatitis by acting as a national ambassador for World Hepatitis Day. Hepatitis Australia CEO Helen Tyrrell said there were many high profile and senior people in government, business and academia with the disease but nobody wanted to be associated with it in a public sense. “The fact that no-one stepped forward [as ambassador] said it all,” she said. “Hepatitis is everywhere. It can affect anyone, anywhere. People with hepatitis come from all walks of life. It is virtually ...
CONCERN is growing that backyard tattooing could be fuelling transmission of blood-borne viruses. Health workers say teenagers are buying tattoo guns on the Internet and inking each other with little understanding of how to keep the equipment sterile. Aboriginal sexual health officer Vicky Bardon, from Lismore, NSW, said some young people believed changing the needles was sufficient, not understanding that blood got into the ink containers. A Facebook campaign against backyard tattooing, which has attracted nearly 6000 supporters internationally, identified that Australian young people were gathering for “tattoo parties”, she said. Margaret Johnson, creator of ...
THE vast majority of Australians still have disturbingly low knowledge of hepatitis B and C, according to a new national survey. The survey, conducted by Hepatitis Australia, has found that most people do not know hepatitis C is curable, nor are they familiar with the common symptoms of these diseases. Eighty to 85 per cent of the 1000 people surveyed around the country do not know hepatitis B and C can cause cancer. Forty-five per cent wrongly believe hepatitis C can be transmitted by saliva, while 68 per cent mistakenly think it is sexually transmitted. ...