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Sharon Murphy (Australia)

Sharon Murphy

Sharon Murphy

Sharon is passionate about hepatitis C. She works and volunteers in the areas of harm minimisation, peer support, health promotion, education and governance. Sharon was...

Queensland Positive Speakers Bureau

What an amazing day I had on Friday!  I had the great pleasure of attending a workshop facilitated by the Queensland Positive Speakers Bureau (QPSB) and it was fantastic.   Helen, the QPSB Coordinator, came up from Brisbane and we met at the Cairns Sexual Health Service facility in Cairns North.

There were eight of us altogether, four with hepatitis C, one with hepatitis B and three with HIV.  It is such an unusual experience to have a group of positive people together like that, with everyone sharing their stories and ...

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Conference abstracts

I've had an interesting week, with both my abstracts accepted for inclusion at the National Hepatitis Health Promotion Conference in Brisbane next month. 

As I said last week, the conference theme is Joining the Dots for Successful Health Promotion.  With that theme in mind, my friend Pam and I created a whimsical poster filled with brightly coloured dots for the peer-support website HepCAustralasia.  We placed the logos for the hepatitis groups and organisations in Australia (and the World Hepatitis Alliance) inside the dots, and intend to provide whiteboard markers ...