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Living with Hep C? Share Your Story!
"Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel and dream."
- Carmen Naranjo, Costa Rican novelist
Feeling creative? Join Hep Free NYC's Hep C Personal Stories Workshop. Learn storytelling skills to better educate, advocate, and fight stigma against Hep C. Workshops have begun and continue till April 27, register today! |
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Upcoming Events
Webinar | NYC Health Department Resources to Support Hep C Testing, Linkage to Care and Treatment. Tue, Apr 5 (4:30 - 5:30 PM). HepCure.org.
Meeting | Bronx Hep C Task Force. Wed, Apr 6 (3 - 5 PM). 234 E 146th St, Bronx. RSVP.
Training | Active Drug Users and HIV/HCV Retention in Care and Treatment Adherence. Thu, Apr 7. NYS AIDS Institute.
8th Annual AASLD Liver Capitol Hill Day. Apr 6. Washington, DC.
Training | Hep C Screening and Linkage to Care. Thu, Apr 14 (9 - 5 PM). NYS AIDS Institute.
Meeting | NYC Hep B Coalition. Wed, Apr 27 (3 - 5 PM). 132 West 32nd Street, Manhattan. RSVP.
CME Symposium | HIV and Hep C Symposium. Sat, May 14. Clinical Care Options. For medical providers.
Call for Abstracts | 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users. Sep 7-9, Oslo. International Network for Hepatitis in Substance Users. Abstracts due Apr 22, 2016.
Call for Abstracts | 11th National Harm Reduction Conference. Nov 3-6. Harm Reduction Coalition, San Diego,CA. Abstracts due May 1, 2016. |
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SAVE THE DATE! Thu, May 12 (11 AM-noon)
Hepatitis Awareness Event on the Steps of NY City Hall
Join us with your organization banner!
Planning a National Hepatitis Testing Day screening or awareness event?
Let us know - we want to help you promote it!
Help Us Plan for Hep Awareness Month: Intern for Hep Free NYC!
 CUNY Hunter student? Know a Hunter student? Hep Free NYC is looking for a dynamic Youth Engagement Coordinator (part-time, paid intern) to help plan World Hepatitis Day events, lead the Team HBV student initiative and support coordination of a new HCV prevention in youth initiative.
Pictured: Andrew Huang, former Team HBV Leader and Project INSPIRE Hep C Care Coordination Program Assistant
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Hep Free NYC Program of the Month
 Meet After Hours Project
Hector Quinones, Director of Social Services and Linkage to Care, tells us about After Hours Project and how to achieve a Hep Free NYC. Hector manages the NYC Hep C Peer Program at Afterhours and is an advisory board member of the NYC Hep C Task Force.
Describe a typical day at the After Hours Project’s Hep C Peer Navigation Program
Our Hep C navigation program conducts outreach and case finding activities with our syringe exchange program services at locations in Brooklyn communities where individuals at high risk for Hep C congregate. During these activities Hep C screenings are conducted and those individuals confirmed positive for Hep C are linked to primary care and treatment.
Pictured: Wanda Ortiz, Peer Navigator, and Hector Quinones of After Hours Project
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What’s your favorite Hep Free NYC moment?
For this year, it was our presentation at the Brooklyn Hep C Task Force meeting where we had two testimonials by clients who were successfully linked to care and completed treatment.
What do you think we need to achieve a Hep Free NYC?
Funding for community-based Hep C patient navigation and all-out efforts to re-engage known Hep C-positive clients out of care. In addition, easier access to treatment and lower cost of new medications.
Want to learn more about what After Hours is doing?
Get in touch with Hector.
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News
"Be About It": New Hep B Documentary Series. Watch the teaser for a new Hep B documentary by Christopher Wong, named one of The Independent's "10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2009."
Hep C Deaths Rising in US. Live Science. The number of deaths in the U.S. from hepatitis C rose from 11,051 in 2003 to 19,368 in 2013.
Savoring Sweet Sobriety, a Grandmother Rebuilds. NY Times. Featuring our own Linda Malloy, Hep C peer navigator at Praxis Housing!
NYS Attorney General to Investigate Insurers Over Hep C Drug Coverage. NYS attorney general asked 16 health insurance companies for info on Hep C treatment coverage.
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Training & Technical Assistance
NYC Clinical Providers: Join the NYC Health Department and Empire Liver Foundation Hep C Clinical Tele-Mentoring Program. There are two weekly one hour training sessions to select from.
Hep C Medical Providers: Register in the New York State Department of Health Hep C Provider Directory.
Online HCV & HBV AASLD CME for Primary Care Providers. AASLD.
Allied Health Providers: HepCure Tele-Education Webinar Series. Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Community Health Worker Certification and Licensure. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
>> See more Training & Technical Assistance
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Tools & Resources
Hep C Educational Materials With a Focus on Baby Boomers
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Poster: "Get Tested, Get Cured!"
For patients; in English (Spanish coming soon!) Booklet: "Hep C: The Facts"
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Poster: New Hep C Treatments
Hep C Screening & Linkage to Care Toolkit
For medical providers; in English
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New! Know Hep B Video PSAs
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Journal Articles & Reports
Case Study | Accessing the Cure: Helping Patients With Hepatitis C Overcome Barriers to Care. Am J Manag Care, Mar 2016. The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable and Project Inform describe how they are removing obstacles to universal treatment access for Hep C patients.
Report | Neighborhood Poverty and Infectious Diseases: Health Disparities in New York City. NYC Health Dept, Mar 2016. New Yorkers residing in very high poverty census tracts are more likely to be diagnosed with Hepatitis B and C.
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