C The Whole Story: Hepatitis C in Homelessness, AOD, and Mental Health Settings Forum

Course Summary
Learn and share knowledge about innovative approaches to hepatitis C care across three priority settings.

Synopsis
This one-day forum brings together Nurses, NSP Frontline Workers, and Peer Workers from around Australia to share their experiences, strategies for success, and innovative approaches to providing treatment to people living with hepatitis C in homelessness, AOD (alcohol and other drugs), and mental health settings.

Event Description
The forum will be run as a series of keynote sessions, lived experience sessions, presentations on innovative approaches to providing hepatitis C treatment and care, Q&A with speakers, as well as a networking session focused on implementing different approaches to your setting.

This forum is for
Nurses, NSP Frontline Workers, and Peer Workers who are working in homelessness, AOD, and/or mental health settings. Other healthcare providers and allied health workers with an interest in hepatitis C are welcome to join.

Learning outcomes
Demonstrate understanding of hepatitis C screening, testing, treatment, and linkage to care
Outline client perspectives of accessing hepatitis C testing, treatment and linkage to care
Identify and implement strategies for overcoming barriers to treating hepatitis C in homelessness, AOD, and mental health settings
Evaluate the feasibility of implementing alternative approaches to hepatitis C screening, testing, treatment, and linkage to care in your service

Funding
This event is supported by an unconditional education grant from AbbVie and Gilead Sciences. Sponsorship is governed by ASHM’s Sponsorship Policy and the sponsors have no input into the content, tone, emphasis, allocation of funds or selection of recipients. ASHM does not endorse or promote any sponsor’s product or service.

For more information:

Please click here to download the Forum flyer.

Please contact Sarah Tran via email at sarah.tran@ashm.org.au, or calling on 0431 320 429.