Hepatitis C -- Australia
Pressure is mounting on the Queensland Government to implement needle and syringe programs (NSPs) in the state's correctional centers amid an outbreak of hepatitis C at a Far North Queensland prison. Darren Russell from the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service said most of those cases were linked to the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre. "What we are seeing is increasing amounts of injecting drug use [at the prison], and that is occurring particularly in a group of young Aboriginal
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