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Victorian HIV and Hepatitis Integrated Training and Learning

A Victorian Department of Health and Human Services partnership.

What is VHHITAL?

VHHITAL is the Victorian HIV and Hepatitis Integrated Training And Learning (VHHITAL) program.

The program delivers comprehensive education and training for GPs for the diagnosis, treatment and management of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections (STI). It includes the provision of training and certification for practitioners who prescribe highly specialised drugs administered under Section 100 (S100) of the National Health Act 1953.

The program aims to:

Improve general practice workforce capacity to screen, treat and manage HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and STIs.
Improve alignment of general practitioners, with priority populations and areas of high prevalence for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and STIs.
Improve access to community testing and prescribing for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and STIs.
Improve networking opportunities for prescribers.

Upcoming VHHITAL events

VHHITAL training is delivered throughout Victoria. If you’d like to find out about upcoming events, sign up to the VHHITAL mailing list by emailing vhhital@nwmphn.org.au. Or click the button below to register for an upcoming event.

View upcoming VHHITAL events

View Statewide BBV and STI events calendar

Online modules

PrEP in practice: Guidance for GPs’ (duration: 40 to 60 minutes). This online module provides guidance for general practitioners to better understand and safely prescribe PrEP.

Note: If you a first-time user of the ASHM Learning Management System, you will first be directed to register as a new system user.

‘Curing hepatitis C- Your role as a GP’ (duration 60 mins). This online module is designed to educate GPs on how to assess patients with hepatitis C prior to initiating treatment and assist with the selection of an appropriate direct-acting antiviral (DAA) agent. Access the module.

Tools for wellbeing for people with blood-borne viruses: LiverWell app and PozQOL Scale. The LiverWell app and PozQol Scale are discussed by local GPs and S100 prescribers, and health experts from LiverWell (incorporating Hepatitis Victoria), WHO collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, Living Positive Victoria, and the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health in Society, La Trobe University. Access the module.

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Consortium partners

The consortium brings the skills and resources of clinical subject-matter experts, research expertise, program development and accreditation, training and education for health professionals, and expert knowledge of the health needs of Victorian living with, or at risk of contracting blood-borne viruses (BBV).

The program is funded by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, and is delivered and managed through a consortium comprising of North West Melbourne PHN (NWMPHN), the Australasian HIV, Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine Society (ASHM), Alfred Health, and the Doherty Institute.

Program contacts

VHHITAL
Ph. 03 9347 1188

Dr Bernard Gardiner
Lead, VHHITAL program
Ph. 03 9347 1188

Factsheets

HBV Prescriber Location Listing

HIV Prescriber Location Listing

The implementation of blood borne virus training and leaning efforts is supported by the Victorian Government.