The NSW Users & AIDS Association

Leading British medical journal, The Lancet, has published a report detailing the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access to services.

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The Greens spokesperson for Corrections and Health, Amanda Bresnan has released a position paper today calling on goverment to implement needle and syringe programs in ACT's first prison, recently opened. The Greens argue that not only do NSP's improve the health of prisoners and corrections officers, they also improve the uptake of drug treatment programs as evidenced overseas.

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New medicines are being developed that are expected to transform the care of patients with hepatitis C, making treatment far more effective and far less grueling.

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