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In an announcement yesterday, Melbourne’s Burnet Institute is partnering with pharmaceutical company Moderna, in a bid to deliver three new highly desired vaccines, one of which may be the first-ever vaccine for hepatitis C.

LiverWELL hosted our first regional forum of 2022 in Mildura on 5 May 2022

LiverWELL's first education session at the Cambodian Association of Victoria (CAV) was held on 10 May 2022

This week is National Volunteer Week, which means it is time to reflect and recognise the important role volunteers play in the success of LiverWELL.

Cases of children with acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported in the media in recent weeks. The Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA) have issued a statement.

LiverWELL’s Multicultural Community Educator Alain Palines held a session with two classes at Laverton Community Education Centre on 27 April as part of our program which engages students under the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP).

Do you have lived experience of viral hepatitis or liver disease? Have you thought about becoming a HEP speaker? Want to share your story to help others?

This week’s LiverWELL podcast features Dr Tram Tran, who is the Chief Medical Officer for Glympse Bio, and a renowned liver and viral specialist with over 20 years of academic and industry experience at Gilead, Cedars-Sinai, and UCLA Geffen School of Medicine.

19 April marks World Liver Day 2022 – a day where we aim to raise awareness of our liver health and how we can better support the hardest working organ in our bodies. 

World Immunisation Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.

The theme for Earth Day 2022 is Invest In Our Planet. 

The theme of World Health Day 2022 is “Our Planet, Our Health.”