State government is failing to deliver harm reduction programs needed to eliminate the virus, advocates say
Photograph: Jono Searle/AAPPhotograph: Jono Searle/AAPQueensland prisoners are stuck on a “merry-go-round” of hepatitis C transmission because the government is failing to deliver harm reduction programs needed to eliminate the virus, advocates say.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup This figure represented 47% of the national total for people who received hepatitis C treatments in a correctional facility. “They were released without being started on the program [about a week ago] and there was not anything to follow up.”
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