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Podcast

Listen to ‘After Cure’ – a new documentary podcast about hepatitis C in the age of curative treatment

‘After Cure’ is a new documentary podcast from the post-cure lives research team that explores experiences of hepatitis C in the new treatment era.

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New article

‘I’m not hep C free’ – new research explores the afterlives of hepatitis C

What does ‘cure’ mean for people when treatment doesn’t bring about an end to the social effects of a disease? Our latest article explores the afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure.

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News

GLaD visits Europe

As part of our drugs and human rights project, GLaD researcher Sean Mulcahy is heading to Europe to present at conferences in London, Sheffield and Verona.

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Presentation

Harm Reduction International Conference: Strength in Solidarity (#HR23)

On behalf of GLaD’s  research team working on the post-cure lives project, Emily Lenton presented at Harm Reduction International conference (#HR23) on a paper entitled ‘Hepatitis C data justice: The implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C’. The global conference, attended by over 1000 delegates from over 80 countries, is an incredible opportunity to connect with researchers, practitioners, allies in civil society, health and social justice organisations, and the GLaD team were thrilled to participate. 

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Presentation

Power, pain, ‘problem’ patients and practices of comparison – a Monash Health Humanities talk by Kate Seear

In a recent Monash Health Humanities, GLaD research lead Kate Seear drew connections between the ways in which people with endometriosis and people who use drugs are subject to stigmatising judgements regarding which patients are ‘genuine’ pain patients, deserving of care, and which are ‘non-genuine’, ‘drug seekers’ or ‘addicts’.

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GLaD researchers Presentation

Watch the GLaD team’s summer research showcase

Recently, GLaD reserchers Sean Mulcahy, Emily Lenton and Dion Kagan presented a 3-part showcase of research findings from current projects addressing LGBTIQA+ human rights, hepatitis C data justice, and life after hepatitis C cure. Watch a recording of their papers here.

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Community Presentation

Inaugural Australian stigma conference hears call to address the health and human rights of people who use drugs

GLaD research lead Kate Seear gave a keynote presentation at the inaugural Australian Stigma Conference hosted by the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) in Canberra calling for reform to legal, social, policy and cultural dimensions of hepatitis C in order to better to address the health and human rights of people who use drugs.

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Presentation Project update

Post-cure and post-human rights – recent findings presented at the Australian Sociological Association conference

GLaD program lead Kate Seear and project officer Dion Kagan presented recent findings at The Australian Sociological Association conference earlier this month.

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Announcement New article Publications Research

Complicating cure

The law has the power to shape public understandings of hepatitis C infection, including how people with the virus understand themselves and their ability to avoid the stigma associated with it. The latest article from our project on the experiences of people treated for hepatitis C engages with the challenges posed by laws and policies devised in a pre-cure world.

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Announcement Podcast Research

Listen to a showcase of important new research this World Hepatitis Day

To mark World Hepatitis Day in 2022, researchers in the GLaD and DruGS programs at ARCSHS got together with CEO of Hepatitis Australia Carrie Fowlie to share and discuss findings from three recent social research projects on hepatitis C. Listen to the conversation here.

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Submission

Victorian inquiry into cannabis considers law reform

A Victorian parliamentary committee recently released a report detailing the findings and recommendations from a major inquiry into the use of cannabis in Victoria. GLaD program lead Associate Professor Kate Seear was one of several people to make a submission to the inquiry.

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Announcement

Welcome to GLaD

We are delighted to introduce you to a new research program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS).

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Presentation

Insights from the GLaD team presentations at the Sixth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference

At the recent Contemporary Drug Problems conference in Paris, three members of the GLaD research team gave papers speaking to the theme of ‘Embracing Trouble’.

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News Publications Report

Hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination in a post-cure world – launch of a three-year national research project report

This week, the GLaD team released their summary report from the project on hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination in a post-cure world, including 18 recommendations for policy, legal and practice reform. Read more and access the report here.

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Project update

An afternoon at parliament

During a recent trip to Europe, GLaD team member Sean Mulcahy attended a public meeting of the UK’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. Here, he describes how the spatial economies of the inquiry room, and the actors within, perform the act of a public hearing on human rights.

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Research

Liquor in brothels – safety, gender and sex work

On or before 1 December 2023, new Victorian laws will come into operation that will allow the service of liquor in brothels. We examine the parliamentary debate on liquor in brothels.

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Submission

Submission to national human rights inquiry

GLaD researchers, together with colleagues from the Drugs, Gender and Sexuality Program and elsewhere, have developed a submission to a national human rights inquiry.

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New article

Performing hepatitis C – new research explores legal performances of hepatitis C before and after cure

Our latest paper, recently published in the journal of Law and Literature, investigates constructions of hepatitis C in Australian law both before and after new-generation treatments.

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New article

Forging new habits

If human rights are an effective framework for the prevention of punitive approaches towards drugs, why haven’t they prevented them to date? The latest article from the GLaD team addresses this question.

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New article

The trouble with normalisation – new research on the mainstreaming of hepatitis C care and its impact on stigma

Our latest article investigates the mainstreaming of hepatitis C care – a process known as ‘normalisation’ – and whether it can reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with the virus.

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New article

New research on the human rights culture in the ACT

Our latest article considers how a ‘culture of human rights’ is defined in research into human rights charters across Australian jurisdictions, including the ACT.

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News

New health information sharing legislation could compromise Victorians’ privacy rights

New Victorian legislation will introduce an electronic patient health information sharing system to enable public hospitals and other specified health services to share Victorians’ health information.

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New article

New research on gender in alcohol and other drug regulation

In our latest article, we explore how alcohol and other drugs issues are considered in human rights scrutiny processes in Australian parliaments.

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Publications

New research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C

Our latest article considers Australian insurance law and practice in the context of hepatitis C.

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New project

Mapping Australian legislation on LGBTIQA+ rights

GLaD program researcher Sean Mulcahy is conducting a new project designed to audit Australian legislation that has been subject to human rights scrutiny

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