Press Releases

July 2024
Down With Hepatitis - CURE-A-COUNTRY
Celebrating Niue's Elimination of Viral Hepatitis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FVX3JKl68g


July 2024
Te Uekera: The National Weekly Paper of Kiribati - Issue #30
Visit to Kiribati by Hepatitis B Free team from Australia
PDF Article


July 2024
Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination Press Release
Sue Huntley announced a 2024 “Elimination Champion”
https://www.globalhep.org/elimination-champions
Ms. Sue Huntley, a Founder and Director of Hepatitis B Free, an Australian charity, has been named a 2024 “Elimination Champion” due to her tireless advocacy and leadership in the fight against hepatitis B across the Asia Pacific region. Sue worked alongside co-founder, hepatologist and professor Alice Lee of Sydney, to establish local and national elimination programs in challenging environments, saving thousands of lives. Their work spans Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tonga, and even North Korea, where she has successfully set up five clinics in a country that previously had no hepatitis services.


June 2024
NASA Kennedy Space Centre Press Release
Professor David Hilmers Inducted Into U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
Hepatitis B Free Chief Medical Officer David Hilmers honoured for outstanding accomplishments in furthering NASA’s mission of exploration and discovery.
https://media.kennedyspacecenter.com/ahof-2024/ & https://youtu.be/lxWoKulitG0?si=7sLt1dTXIko9Rg_6


January 2024
New Zealand - stuff.co.nz
The little country that could: Niue set to claim world first
Article written by Hamish McNeilly
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350147676/little-country-could-niue-set-claim-world-first


January 2024
TV Niue - tvniue.com
Sustainability key to Hepatitis Elimination Programme
Article written by Mere Satakala
https://tvniue.com/2024/01/sustainability-key-to-hepatitis-elimination-programme


October 2017
The Limbic
A Sydney hepatologist’s mission to eradicate hepatitis B in PNG
Article written by Tessa Hoffman
https://thelimbic.com/gastroenterology/a-sydney-hepatologists-mission-to-eradicate-hepatitis-b-in-png/