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n 2017, we reported on the beginning of Hepatitis SA’s association with the LiveRLife Project (see issue 72). The Outreach Hepatitis C Peer Education & Support Project and Clean Needle Program Peer Educators from Hepatitis SA were assisting researchers from The Kirby Institute, at the University of NSW, with this research. LiveRLife is a Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program, supported by Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Australia. The project, which commenced in 2012, is designed for drug and alcohol settings, especially for people with a history of injecting drug use, and aims to assess subjects’ knowledge of liver disease, their willingness to receive assessment for liver disease, and any barriers there might be to their receiving it.
Liver nurses, DASSA staff and Hepatitisa SA peer educators at DASSA.
The Kirby Institute collaborated with Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia (DASSA), who hosted the LiveRLife Liver Health Campaign here in SA, and provided the
clinical nurse assessments for liver disease screening of participants, as well as assessments of liver fibrosis. Hepatitis SA peer educators
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