Hepatitis ACT

29/05/2026

Make sure to stop past before 5pm today as we will be closed this Monday for Reconciliation Day. 🖤💛❤️

Things to visit us for?
• Stock up from the NSP
• Chat with our peer team
• Drop in for your hep test
• Speak to a clinician

If you’re out and about this Reconciliation Day, Canberra’s community celebrations are also taking place throughout the day - a chance to come together, reflect, learn, and celebrate First Nations cultures and communities.

A big event happening:
👉John Dunmore Lang Place, near Reconciliation Place and Questacon in Parkes
🗓1 June 2026.
🕗between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm for a free, family-friendly event.

We will see you back at 9am Tuesday 2 June.

29/05/2026

One of the ways we are showing up during National Reconciliation Week is by attending events that create space for learning, reflection, and meaningful conversations around cultural safety. 🖤💛❤️

This week, we attended ACTCOSS - ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (Voiced Across Generations) event, hosted alongside The Gulanga Program.

The event brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and community workers to share knowledge and practical ways we can continue creating safer, more culturally responsive services and workplaces.

Hepatitis ACT Peer Worker, Bryce stated - “Lots of learning and growth came from this event. It was great to hear from such long standing voices such as Uncle Keith Brandy and Selina Walker. It was Tahalianna Soward who stole the show for me and her emerging voice in the First Nations community.”

Showing up in spaces like these is an important part of our ongoing commitment to listening, learning, and strengthening the way we support community across the ACT.

26/05/2026

National Reconciliation Week is a time to learn about shared histories, cultures, and how we can all contribute to a more respectful and inclusive future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

This year’s theme, “All In”, reminds us that reconciliation requires all of us to listen, learn, and take action - which is why this week we are attending ACTCOSS - ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (Voiced Across Generations) event alongside community organisations across the ACT to learn from First Nations leaders and strengthen cultural safety in the way we support our community. 💛❤️🖤

To us, supporting reconciliation means more than one week - it is reflected in how we show up every day through respect, culturally safe healthcare, non-judgemental support, and our ongoing commitment to walking alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the ACT.

Reconciliation Australia

26/05/2026

Yesterday, we gathered leaders from across the ACT's health, policy, research and community sectors to map our pathway to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat in the ACT by 2030.

Thank you to Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA, ACT Minister for Health, for opening the forum and reaffirming the ACT Government's commitment to elimination. Your leadership and partnership have been instrumental in bringing us to this point.

And thank you to everyone who showed up - clinicians, policymakers, peak bodies, researchers, community organisations, and people with lived experience. You spent the day doing the hard work: naming systemic barriers, identifying leverage points, and making commitments to collective action.

We left with a systems map showing how we all connect, and a roadmap built by the sector, for the sector.

30 years of advocacy. 10 years of hep C cure. 5 years to elimination.

More to come as we synthesise the day's work and share what we have built together.

Thank you to our strategic event partners: AbbVie Australia

25/05/2026

Today acknowledges National Sorry Day, recognising the strength and resilience of the Stolen Generations and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families, communities, and culture.

First Nations communities still continue to experience disproportionately high rates of hepatitis B and liver disease in Australia, highlighting the importance of culturally safe and community-informed healthcare.

Today, our staff will attend a National Sorry Day event held by Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services to pay respects to the Stolen Generations and acknowledge the ongoing impacts of forced child removal policies.

Today, we stand in reflection, respect, and solidarity.

21/05/2026

Make sure to stop past before 5pm today as we will be closed this Monday.

Things to visit us for?
• Stock up from the NSP
• Chat with our peer team
• Drop in for your hep test
• Speak to a clinician

We will see you at 9am Tuesday 26 May, if you need similar services before then you can stop past CAHMA and The Connection 💡

21/05/2026

19/05/2026

Last week, we connected with communications teams from hepatitis organisations across Australia.

There is something incredibly valuable about coming together in person to share ideas, collaborate, strengthen sector connections, and learn from each other’s work.

Thank you to Hepatitis Australia for bringing us all together, and to everyone involved for such a meaningful and productive day for the sector 👏

Hepatitis SA Hepatitis NSW HepatitisWA TasCAHRD Hepatitis Queensland

17/05/2026

🗣 Free testing at the Early Morning Centre
🗓 Tuesday 02 June
📍 69 Northbourne Ave, Canberra ACT 2600
🕒 9am - 10am
📞1800 437 222