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Prisons need better drug treatment programs to control infectious diseases

  • Written by Kate Dolan, Professor of Global Prisoner Health, UNSW Australia

Authors: Kate Dolan, Professor of Global Prisoner Health, UNSW Australia

imageThose who enter prison uninfected are at risk of becoming infected.josefkubes/Shutterstock

Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B...

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