Summary
The
NSW Hepatitis C Strategy 2022 - 2025 lays the foundation for achieving hepatitis C elimination in NSW by 2028. The strategy focuses on four pillars: prevention, testing, treatment and stigma and discrimination.
The goals of the strategy are to:
- prevent new infections through harm reduction, education and health promotion
- increase access and testing for people at risk of infection
- link newly acquired and existing infections into treatment and care
- reduce stigma and discrimination as a barrier to prevention, testing and treatment.
The strategy focuses efforts on priority populations including:
- people who currently inject drugs or have a history of injecting drugs
- people in custodial settings or with a history of incarceration
- people living with hepatitis C
- people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
The strategy also outlines a renewed focus on embedding hepatitis C care in key settings where priority populations may interact with, including:
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
- homelessness services and social housing
- alcohol and other drug services
- mental health services
- custodial settings (including community corrections and parole services)
- multicultural and community settings
- general practice
- Needle and Syringe Program services
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