World Hepatitis Day 2016
For World Hepatitis Day on July 28th, 2016, the University of New South Wales and University of Sydney Hepatitis B Free Societies joined forces to produce a social media campaign.
In line with this Day, we asked our audience to join us in asking governments to commit to making national targets under the WHO’s first ever elimination strategy, adopted by 194 countries in May 2016. We also asked for government commitments that would lead to a 65% drop in the death toll, a 90% reduction in new cases of hepatitis, and 7 million lives saved by 2030.
World Immunisation Week 2016
On 24-30 April 2016, Hepatitis B Free promoted a social media campaign to contribute to annual World Immunization Week. This campaign is run by the World Health Organization and the theme this year was “Close the Immunization Gap”.
As part of the social media campaign, volunteers produced a series of infographics with facts about hepatitis B immunisation. The infographics were published each day throughout the week across Facebook and Twitter, as well as the social media platforms of partner organisations such as Hepatitis NSW and CEVHAP (Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in the Asia Pacific).
