The NSP (needle exchange) at 345 Crown St, Surry Hills is run by NUAA, the organisation that publishes Users News. There are some minor changes happening at the NSP.

Users News provides an update on how NUAA is helping to eliminate hepatitis C in Australia.

Hepatitis C peer worker Kiah Glasson shares her story with Users News and gives the low down on all things hep C.

Reflections on the missing piece in the hepatitis C elimination puzzle: the supply of clean sterile injecting equipment in Australian correctional centres.

Carla is a peer worker at a Needle and Syringe Program and in the hep C testing and treatment space. She tells how she uses her lived experience helps her help others to access the health care they need.

Peers On Wheels (POW) is a new pilot project NUAA has launched. The project delivers mobile peer-led testing and treatment services for hepatitis C (hep C). POW is friendly, confidential, quick and easy. POW is visiting a bunch of places in NSW over the coming months. To help spread the word to peers, we interviewed MJ, the project’s Coordinator. 

“Peer Worker” is an emerging role in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) space in NSW. Not only has research shown how valuable peer education and support is, services using peer workers see the difference every day as more consumers come through their doors to have more respectful and relevant interactions.

Bridie and Pandora are two older women who share some of their changes — the things they have learnt — from the practical to the philosophical