NSW Hepatitis C Strategy 2022 - 2025

Summary

The NSW Hepatitis C Strategy 2022 - 2025 lays the foundation for achieving hepatitis C elimination in NSW by 2028. The strategy focuses on four pillars: prevention, testing, treatment and stigma and discrimination.

The goals of the strategy are to:

• prevent new infections through harm reduction, education and health promotion
• increase access and testing for people at risk of infection
• link newly acquired and existing infections into treatment and care
• reduce stigma and discrimination as a barrier to prevention, testing and treatment.

The strategy focuses efforts on priority populations including:

• people who currently inject drugs or have a history of injecting drugs
• people in custodial settings or with a history of incarceration
• people living with hepatitis C
• people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

The strategy also outlines a renewed focus on embedding hepatitis C care in key settings where priority populations may interact with, including:

• Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
• homelessness services and social housing
• alcohol and other drug services
• mental health services
• custodial settings (including community corrections and parole services)
• multicultural and community settings
• general practice
• Needle and Syringe Program services

More information

• Hepatitis C Fact Sheet
• Hepatitis C - Live Hep C Free
• Hepatitis C - Multilingual resources
• Hepatitis C Snapshot (2015)
• Further information regarding the medicines and prescriber eligibility is available from Th​e Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.