News - Menzies

MEDIA RELEASE | Hep B PAST delivers outstanding health outcomes with no significant cost increase

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October 19, 2026 - 09:15am

New research has found no significant difference between the costs of the Menzies-led Hepatitis B Partnership Program (Hep B PAST) and standard care, for addressing chronic hepatitis B in remote NT communities.
MEDIA RELEASE | Landmark study reveals hepatitis B risks for First Nations people in the NT

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July 14, 2025 - 09:00am

Menzies has led the largest-ever study of people living with a unique strain of chronic hepatitis B (C4 hepatitis B) – which predominately affects First Nations Australians in the NT – uncovering significant impacts on liver health.
MEDIA RELEASE | Nationally recognised hepatitis B tool now available in 11 languages

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May 19, 2025 - 15:30pm

The Hep B Story App, a leading hepatitis B health education resource by Menzies is now available in 11 Aboriginal languages, with the recent addition of Wubuy and Murrinh Patha.
HEP VOICE Magazine - October - December 2023

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December 01, 2023 - 09:00am

Kelly Hosking of Menzies School of Health Research shares an insight about the Hep B PAST Program with the World Hepatitis Alliance online magazine.
MEDIA RELEASE | Hep B program highlights expertise as CDU Menzies School of Medicine seeks more student placements in the NT

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August 16, 2023 - 10:15am

The CDU Menzies School of Medicine continues its momentum to advocate for the Australian Government to allocate 40 new placements for medical students in the Northern Territory.
MEDIA RELEASE | Crucial tool to assist in the elimination of Chronic Hepatitis B launched

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November 25, 2021 - 15:00pm

An educational app designed to improve health literacy around the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been translated to provide more than 70 per cent of the Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal population access in their first language.
Five medical research projects recognised in the Northern Territory

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May 21, 2020 - 10:36am

Five researchers based at Menzies have received recognition in the form of Investigator Grants from the NHMRC and the MRFF.
Innovative data use an important step in eliminating hep B

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April 29, 2020 - 12:30pm

A team of researchers in the Northern Territory (NT) have designed and tested a new algorithm to determine hepatitis B status.
Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre supports new phone App

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March 05, 2020 - 11:12am

Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin are making a new phone app about Hepatitis B in Kunwinjku language with help from the Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre.
Hepatitis B DNA Helps Trace History and Movement of First Australians

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March 22, 2019 - 01:45am

The team found that hepatitis B virus isolated from these Aboriginal Australians is a unique strain called HBV/C4, which is not found anywhere else in the world.
Hepatitis B virus sheds light on ancient human population movements into Australia

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March 19, 2019 - 00:15am

Australian researchers have used current hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome sequences to deduce ancient human population movements into Australia, adding weight to the theory that the mainland Aboriginal population separated from other early humans at least 59 thousand years ago and possibly entered the country near the Tiwi Islands.
Chronic hepatitis B elimination partnership launched

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September 10, 2018 - 10:00am

A collaboration working to eliminate chronic hepatitis B (CHB) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Northern Territory (NT) is being launched by NT Health Minister the Hon Natasha Fyles.
Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities

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July 26, 2018 - 12:22pm

Menzies is doing its part to ensure more Indigenous Territorians have access to potentially life-saving information about hepatitis B this World Hepatitis Day.
Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities

Date

July 26, 2018 - 12:00pm

Katherine Times | Making hepatitis B information more widely available to Indigenous communities
Chronic hepatitis B to be eliminated from the Northern Territory

Date

May 08, 2018 - 09:00am

An important collaboration which will work to eliminate chronic hepatitis B (CHB) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Northern Territory (NT) has been established.
ABC online | Elcho Island researchers bound for Alaska

Date

August 02, 2017 - 10:18am

Three community-based researchers from Elcho Island working with Menzies School of Health Research are bound for Alaska to present at an international viral hepatitis conference.

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