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Slideshow scroll-down | #HEPCURED 2024 campaign highlights
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.
The HEPCURED Mobile Mural was out in McLeod Park South Windsor, supporting the Mobile Outreach Team of the Nepean Blue Mountains Health Local Health District for Hepatitis Awareness Week. Community hep C testing was being assisted by Hep NSW peer worker Jimmi, NUAA NSW, Mootang Tarimi Mobile Outreach Service, Hawkesbury District Health Service and WHOs Hawkesbury. The Mootang Tarimi clinic services communities across Nepean, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains and Lithgow Plains. Travelling on Darug, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri countries.
At this weekly community lunch event held by Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, Hep NSW staff and peers collaborated with KRC Outreach nurses and staff for a hep C point-of-care testing and treatment station. Educational conversations around hep B and hep C including, treatments options and pathways, how to reduce risk of infection, how often to get tested, and other topics were conveyed in this neighbourhood hub social setting.
Staff from the St George Drug and Alcohol Service, the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District HARP unit, and Hep NSW staff pose with the #HEPCURED Mural, which was parked directly in front of their clinic where a Hep C Awareness Day BBQ for clients took place and the hepatitis treatment nurse was available to talk to people and offer hep C point-of-care testing and fibroscan.
Staff from Northern Sydney Local Health District, led by Quentin Evans (from RUSH NSP) stationed alongside the weekly-held community foodbank, One Meal, at Beverley Job Park in the Sydney Northern Beaches. Hep C DBS community testing was offered, assisted by Hep NSW peer worker Tony, with the HEPCURED Mobile Mural promoting the event nearby.
Spot the #HEPCURED advertising travelling around Sydney metro and surrounds promoting the message in and around Hepatitis Awareness Week that hep C treatment is a gamechanger.
The #HEPCURED Mobile Mural toured Regional NSW with various pitstops, where on occasion it was spotted by healthcare workers, such as the picture above at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
Various hep C testing and health promotion activities were organised throughout the Southeast Sydney Local Health District. One of these included an outreach hep C DBS testing site for clients of The Langton Centre, Surry Hills, Sydney coordinated by a staff team led by Sarah Bilbao (Clinical Nurse Consultant).
Hepatitis Awareness Week kicks off in the heart of Redfern with the Sydney Local Health District’s Mobile Health Clinic van parked side-by-side with the HEPCURED Digital Billboard. Point-of-care testing and DBS testing were being offered to community members. The big operational 2-day event was joined by staff from Redfern NSP, NUAA, and Hep NSW peer workers and staff.
Staff from the Mid North Coast Local Health District led by CNC Alexandra Wade ran free hep C testing and treatment promotion from the mobile van to community members at Port Macquarie Community Health Centre. This event was joined by Hep NSW peer worker, and Aboriginal Health workers.
Free hep C testing, a community BBQ and giveaways were offered to Riverland clients by the clinical outreach team led by Kate Salisbury (Nurse Unit Manager, Northern NSW Liver Clinics) and joined by Riverland Drug and Alcohol staff, including clinic director, Trish Collie. This event was joined by Hep NSW peer worker, Misha, and NSP staff from the Lismore Liver Clinic and Northern NSW Local Health District.
Western Sydney Local Health District staff, led by Amy Chu (Clinical Nurse Consultant) and the Storr Liver Centre at the Westmead Institutes, engaged community members with viral hepatitis information at Auburn Central, Sydney. Their mobile clinic van was parked alongside the #HEPCURED Mural with Hepatitis NSW staff and Peer workers supporting activities.
Kiah, who is a lived- and living-experience peer worker spoke as part of a Hepatitis Awareness Week dinner organised by the Viral Hepatitis Service located at John Hunter Hospital, with staff Suresh Sharma (Hepatology, Nurse Practitioner) and Linda Johansson (pictured). Kiah does consumer engagement and training with NUAA; and is part of Hepatitis NSW’s speaker service and peer partnership program.
South Western Sydney Local Health District from Drug Health services, conducted a 3-day DBS hep C testing site, assisted by Hep NSW peer worker Will, at Ingleburn Community Health Centre.
#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 Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Blue Mountains, Lismore, Coffs Harbor, Dubbo, Wagga Wagga, Tweed Heads, Lithgow, Hunter Valley, Illawarra, and the Central Coast); on billboards at selected Sydney train stations (Hurstville, Yagoona, Cabramatta, Penrith, and Canterbury); and as a social media campaign via Meta (Facebook; Instagram) and Youtube.
Hepatitis Infoline Coordinator, Susanne Wilkinson, is an integral voice to the service who notes, “The #HEPCURED campaign brings numerous calls form community who are seeking pathways to treatment and support services; as well as, services wanting to to be listed on our Hepatitis Service Directory.”
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; t-shirts 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 Campaigns Project Officer — ssirimanotham@hep.org.au
