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 ...

I’ve agreed to be available to Hepatitis Australia as a national media spokesperson this year for National Hepatitis Awareness Week 2010. As I’ve said, I’m passionate about hepatitis C and I believe that it’s important to have people who are prepared to be open and honest about their hepatitis, so I put my name forward.

I got an email from Rachel, the Media and Communications Officer from Hepatitis Australia, with the consent form attached. There were boxes to tick. Do I agree to use my real name? Do I consent ...