The Hepalogue

...you’ve got hepatitis.'‘And the doctor was right,’ continued Marigold ‘The tests came back positive. Then he told me I was going to die.’

Infected Again? Do not delay. And don’t be embarrassed. Health workers understand and are only too eager to help. Here’s an interview with someone who’s on h...

Continued from Part One) Anyway, back on track. When did you first get treated for your Hep C? ‘Well, I must admit, I did use my Hep C for everything I could...

Some Last Words on the 11th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference I’ve mentioned that the big Hep C drug companies contributed significantly to the confere...

A Reaction to the central theme of the 11th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference On a quick glance, No One Left Behind is not the most riveting of catch c...

The first thing I should mention is the single most important thing about this gathering and others like it. Many conferences are strict convocations, where ...

I know I’m not the most regular blogger out there, but I do have a few excuses for the occasional... gap. For a start, I do a lot of research. And I'm very p...

The war against Hep C, that monster from the microrealms, is waged on many fronts - biochemical, behavioural, socio-political and more. On none of these have...

(NB: The statistics cited in this post are generally rounded down to the nearest 10,000. This is for safety and simplicity's sake, as even the raw figures ar...

A little while back, Harm Reduction Victoria held its Annual General Meeting for the 2016/17 financial year. Such events are typically rather dull, comprised...

DAAs have been around for long enough now for us to get a decent view of the post-treatment landscape. There’ve been some very positive findings. But also, s...

Melbourne's new safe injecting room is great news - but establishment stigma won't be suppressed. If you’ve been reading this blog, you may have noticed that...

Who on god's green earth would deliberately forsake cheap, effective, side-effect free treatment for a chronic, potentially fatal disease just because it inv...

Who knows if the stain of stigma will ever be erased from the practice of recreational drug use. Probably not. At least not while it’s illegal. As I’ve said ...

The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, international group which performs systematic reviews of medical trials to eliminate bias and identify poor des...

World Hepatitis Day 2017 is looming. Last year at this time there were all manner of hopes and expectations around the new hep C treatments and a great deal ...

Month by month, the various scattered parts of my life seem to be gathering into a recognisable whole. I'm not happy today, but at least I'm not miserable an...