Meg Perrier on raising awareness about hep B among CALD communities in Melbourne's north

Meg Perrier, Hepatitis B Outreach Project Officer is running a joint project with Cohealth and the Wingate Avenue Community Centre in Ascot Vale, to raise awareness about hepatitis B and get people at risk treated. "...For those born overseas, more often than not they were born in countries with high endemic countries of hepatitis B," she says. The project at Wingate Avenue has introduced an education program about the disease that has led to the testing of 80 community members, more than Meg and her team had anticipated, and a very welcome outcome. "One of the biggest challenges was going through the process of developing the education and making sure the education was well received," she said.