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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Australia could be world leader in Hepatitis C treatment: experts

Australia could be world leader in Hepatitis C treatment: experts

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Medical specialists and community groups have gathered in Sydney to discuss ways to reduce the death rates, as Penny Timms reports.

ANNIE MADDEN: We've seen an almost 150 per cent increase in the death rate from hepatitis C in the last 10 years. So that is obviously extremely concerning and something that we need to halt.

And we do have very good, very effective treatment that are available to us to address this issue. And the biggest issues are around barriers to getting access to those treatments in an affordable way, and also issues for stigma and discrimination for the groups most affected.....

Source - The World Today
Oct 7 
The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians.


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