An estimated one-third of people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Australia are undiagnosed, highlighting a need to increase testing.
Chinese-born people living in Australia are one of the priority groups; they comprise around 2.2 percent of the total Australian population but over 27 percent of the population living with CHB.
To reduce the substantial disease burden from chronic hepatitis B, health promotion interventions that include information provision, communication and education are significant to empower affected communities to make better health decisions.
July 2019 - June 2021
This project hypothesised that framing hepatitis B testing as part of liver cancer prevention may be more effective, acceptable and easier to understand than providing traditional hepatitis B information for communities at risk of hepatitis B infection.
Doctor Yinzong Xiao
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Funding
Partners
- Gastroenterological Society of Australia Grant
- St Vincent’s Foundation Ref Grant
Partners +
Collaborators
- Professor Alex Thompson (St Vincent’s Hospital)
- Ms Gabrielle Bennett (St Vincent’s Hospital)
- Ms Nafisa Yussf (Doherty Institute)
- Aurora Tang (Hepatitis Victoria)
Project
Team
Meet the project team. Together, we are translating research into better health, for all.
