Liver Healthy Life HepatitisWA

Season 1 Conclusion

Guest - Selam Tegegn

Selam is from Ethiopia and is a Clinical Nurse in Mental Health. As a very well respected and involved community member, Selam shares her incredible firsthand experience into migration, hepatitis and mental health issues within the African community.

Guest - Jo Vallve

Jo is a Clinical Nurse Consultant for Hepatology at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital. Jo gives insight and shares her passion for treating and monitoring people living with hepatitis B. Jo raises many important and current issues associated with hepatitis and the different communities she works with.

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Guest Donna Garcia

Donna is a Torres Strait Islander woman who has raised 19 children. Donna tells her incredible story from believing hepatitis C and HIV were the same thing to becoming a Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) Officer and a formidable hepatitis C educator and Aboriginal voice for HepatitisWA.

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Guest Max Bell

Max shares her fascinating story as an Australian woman who has lived with hepatitis C for over 20 years. Max is also a prison educator for the Health In Prison, Health Out of Prison (HIP HOP) program and his lived extensively throughout outback Australia working as a parole officer, case manager, Jillaroo, mosaic artist and Aboriginal theatre producer.

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Guest Virginia Pitts

Virginia is from the Philippines and is President of the Peel Multicultural Association (PMA), she is also a valuable member of the Hepatitis B team at HepatitisWA. As a community leader and Citizen of the Year for Peel, Virginia discusses the hepatitis B situation in the Philippines and here in WA. Virginia shares her passion for educating multicultural communities and highlights the many settlement issues Filipino people face including domestic violence.