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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...

Week 4

I had my 4th shot of Interferon on Friday night.  So far what I'm feeling the most is tired.  I've had a busy couple of weeks, with work and preparing my presentation for the Hepatitis Conference in Brisbane next week.  It has taken it out of me and I don't have much left over for writing or keeping in touch with people.

I am supposed to start taking the Boceprevir tablets next Friday, the day of my 5th shot.  But the drugs haven't arrived in Cairns yet and won't be ...

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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 ...