Hepatitis C Victorian Hepatitis C Strategy 2002-2004 and Addendum 2005-2009
The second Victorian Hepatitis C Strategy (2002–2004) was a whole of government document developed to help strengthen Victoria’s responses to the current and emerging challenges of the hepatitis C epidemic. It was built on the successes of the first Victorian Hepatitis C Strategy that was implemented in 1996.
The strategy guided the public health and acute care responses and was the basis of the community and service providers’ partnership in relation to hepatitis C during 2002–2004.
The Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood-borne and Sexually Transmissible Infections and its hepatitis subcommittee have advised that the priority activities identified in the second Victorian Hepatitis C Strategy (2002–2004) continue to be relevant and that the document does not yet need to be rewritten. However, the committee has identified a number of emerging issues that will require attention over the next two to three years.
As such, the Victorian Hepatitis C Strategy 2002–2004 and Addendum 2005–2009, is comprised of the original text of the second Victorian Hepatitis C Strategy (2002–2004) with a number of additional priority issues. The committee has developed evidence-based recommendations in the following domains, to be addressed during the term of the extended second strategy:
- Key priority area 1: Prevention and control of hepatitis C transmission
- Key priority area 2: Preventing discrimination and reducing stigma and isolation
- Key priority area 3: Health maintenance, care and support for people affected by hepatitis C
- Key priority area 4: Research and surveillance
- Key priority area 5: Pharmaceutical treatments
These new priorities will be progressed during the extended term of the second strategy in addition to the priorities identified in the original second strategy. Implementation will be progressed with the advice of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood-borne and Sexually Transmissible Infections and its Hepatitis subcommittee and through the further development of the Victorian hepatitis C strategy implementation plan.
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