Kirby Institute, July 2015 In celebration of NAIDOC week, the Kirby Institute has a created a booklet which showcases their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. Aboriginal people are one of the priority populations for research conducted at the Kirby Institute. The Kirby Institute manages a range of Aboriginal research and surveillance projects including viral hepatitis and STI...
OnMedica, 15 June 2015
Hepatitis cases are responsible for 93% of prison disease reports, new figures show.
The data from Public Health England (PHE) reveal hepatitis B and C cases accounted for 1,174 of 1,268 infectious diseases reported in English prisons during 2014. The number of single reports of infectious diseases made to PHE has more than doubled since 2011 (549 reports).
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The Age, April 9, 2015 – 5:53PM
The Victorian government is spending $2.2 million on giving hundreds of prisoners better access to hepatitis treatments but will not consider a needle and syringe exchange to prevent more infections.
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ABC News, 24/09/2014
The ACT Opposition has failed to convince the Government to abandon its plan to implement a needle-exchange program in Canberra’s jail.
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The Age, September 18, 2014 – 1:00AM
More Australians are dying from the effects of hepatitis C than ever before, while the spread of syphilis has reached a record high.
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