The Age · National / Queensland

Calls for needle-exchange program after hundreds of prisoners at risk

· By Courtney Kruk
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The Queensland government has brushed aside a call to introduce a needle-exchange program in the state’s prisons, after reports hundreds of former prisoners may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C by sharing injecting equipment.

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