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Prisons, hepatitis c and harm minimisation

dc.contributor.author Levy, Michael en_US
dc.contributor.author Treloar, Carla en_US
dc.contributor.author Booker, Norman en_US
dc.contributor.author McDonald, Rodney en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T14:54:46Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T14:54:46Z
dc.date.issued 2007 en_US
dc.description.abstract 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. 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 ongoing hepatitis C transmission, and would support prevention and treatment programs. A two-stage approach is suggested: firstly, implementing programs of proven effectiveness consistently across the eight Australian jurisdictions, and, secondly, expanding current initiatives in the light of international ¿best practice¿. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/43990
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Prisons, hepatitis c and harm minimisation en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 12 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Medical Journal of Australia en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 647-649 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 186 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Levy, Michael en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Treloar, Carla, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Booker, Norman en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation McDonald, Rodney, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Centre for Social Research in Health *
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