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#HEPCURED 2026 campaign highlights | Slideshow scroll-down
As part of Hepatitis Awareness Week leading into World Hepatitis Day on July 28th, Hepatitis NSW launches our annually-run hep C campaign throughout the month with NSW-wide advertising across multiple platforms and settings.
#HEPCURED is promoting the message that curing your hep C has never been more effective — the new treatment is a game changer: Get out, get tested, get cured and live your best life.
Scroll down to see selected HEPCURED events where Hep NSW partnered and collaborated with health services to promote this message wherever hep C testing and treatment was being provided to communities across NSW.
Staff from Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, NUAA Peers from Exchange on Parker, and HepNSW joined for pop-up hep C testing the Penrith Community Kitchen, which operates Monday to Friday from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the Penrith PCYC. Free, confidential and incentivised hep C testing in community settings is about meeting people where they are at, for low-barrier, accessible, non-stigmatising liver health care services.
Staff from South Western Sydney Local Health District and HepNSW visited Claymore Opportunity Hub to hold Liver Clinic services offering hep C testing and Fibroscan.
In the heart of Redfern with the Sydney Local Health District’s Mobile Health Clinic van parked side-by-side with the HEPCURED Billboard truck, hep C point-of-care testing was offered to community members. This big operational 2-day event was led by a Population Health services team with Team Lead Athena and Sophie and clinical lead Sue (CNC Harm Reduction) — also joined by staff from Redfern NSP, NUAA, and Hep NSW peer workers and staff. Over 160 tests were offered to community over the two days.
In Port Kembla, Gracey HepNSW offered hep C testing services under our HEPLINK Dried-blood Spot Testing program at BaptistCare HopeCare, a community welfare hub people going through housing and/or food insecurity are able to access practical help, offered with dignity from staff there like Bianca, the Pathways Team Leader (Community Housing & Services).
The HEPCURED Mobile Billboard truck was out at Brookvale Community Health Centre, where Hep NSW peer workers offered free hep C dried-blood spot testing, collaborating with their Drug Health Services staff who work at the Needle Exchange Program.
For Hepatitis Awareness Week, staff from Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, NUAA Peers from Exchange on Parker, and HepNSW joined for pop-up hep C testing at Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital, Katoomba.
Two HEPCURED Billboard trucks took a 2-week tour of Regional NSW and Metropolitan Sydney and surrounds. From Bondi to Lithgow, to Quirindi to Tamworth, from Tweed to Kempsey — promoting the message that curing your hep C has never been more effective and that the new treatment is a game changer. We thank Ben Wong and the fleet of drivers at Streetfighter Media.
HepNSW peer workers supported alongside the numerous hep C community pop-ups around the South Eastern Sydney local health district with staff teams from the KRC Mobile clinic and other Drug Health Services. This included at Belmore Park in Sydney’s CBD where St Vincent’s Sister Clare Richardson Mobile Clinic provided free health checks for people experiencing homelessness; Langton Centre (Surry Hills) and St George Drug and Alcohol service (Kogarah); community centres at Northcott (Surry Hills) and Lexo Hub (Maroubra); and Wayside Chapel (Potts Point) and Mission Australia (Surry Hills). The KRC (Kirkton Road Clnic) promoted a fortnight of their HEPFEST (hep C awareness program) delivered alongside their NSP (needle exchange program) and nalaxone services.
Hep C testing and merch giveaways were offered to community clients of Tweed Community Corrections by the outreach team led by Kate (Nurse Unit Manager, Northern NSW Liver Clinics), including Health Promotion Officer Shannon staff, and Hep NSW Peer worker, Misha. On World Hepatitis Day, NSW Health staff gathered at the Lismore Harm Reduction Hub to mark the 10 year anniversary since the hep C direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) were introduced widely on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in Australia. HepNSW Peer worker, Mischa, received a warm acknowledgement for excellent service from Shannon Rees (pictured).
For Hepatitis Awareness Week in the Mid-North Coast NSW, Harm Reduction Officers of the Coffs-Clarence Needle & Syringe Program and the clinical team from the Mid-North Coast Liver Clinic led by Renee held community hep C pop-ups (also offering Work Development Orders to clients) at Pete’s Place Coffs Harbour — a shelter which sees close to 100+ people drop-in daily for a variety of services including meals, laundry, and numerous welfare services. The hep C service was aided by HepNSW Peer worker, Earl. They repeated the community hub in South Grafton’s New School of Art and at West Kempsey’s Clyde Mall, parked outside of the Kempsey Community Corrections. At Kempsey, the community hub was joined by Durri Aboriginal Corporation Medical Service. Durri is on the traditional land of the Dunghutti people.
Western Sydney HIV and Related Programs (HARP), Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, the Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) collaborated Hepatitis NSW to bring the HEPCURED mobile billboard to Mt Druitt Community Health Centre. The team hosted a health promotion stall raising awareness about hepatitis and liver health resources for healthcare workers. Free Dried Blood Spot (DBS) testing was also offered, with support from HepNSW Peer workers Will and Jimmi.
#HEPCURED advertising placements appeared far and wide in NSW: As posters in washrooms and plastered in the streets in placements within proximity to NSPs and health service hubs; on bus panels driving from depots across Regional NSW; on billboards at selected Sydney train stations; and as a social media campaign via Meta (Facebook; Instagram) and Youtube.
Hep NSW can assist with #HEPCURED branding, seen here with an example from the Nepean Hospital where vehicle decals were organised for their NSP clinic van and also wraps for their fitpack vending machines. #HEPCURED merchandise (pull-up banners; work polos and lanyards for health promotion staff; Game Changer branded caps, beanies, first aid kits, torches, water bottles) were distributed to services across NSW to incentivise community and clinical engagement.
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FOR FURTHER ENQUIRIES regarding how your health service could partner with the #HEPCURED campaign, please contact: Saysana Sirimanotham — Hep NSW Campaign Coordinator — ssirimanotham@hep.org.au
