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Hepatitis C Virus
Reports outline hepatitis C virus study findings from University of Sydney
August 6th, 2007
A report, "Prisons, hepatitis C and harm minimisation," is newly published data in Medical Journal of Australia. "Australian prisons have been identified as a focus of the ongoing hepatitis C epidemic. Harm minimisation is the major strategy directed to community-based public health measures to control hepatitis C," scientists in Sydney, Australia report. "Harm-minimisation strategies to protect inmates and workers are incompletely and inconsistently applied in Australian prisons. Overseas experience has demonstrated that introducing injecting-equipment exchange programs and professional tattoo parlours in prisons could at least partially reduce the risks of...
Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2007-08-06)
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