Injecting drug use is associated with numerous health and social harms and accounts for the vast majority of hepatitis C infectious and fatal drug overdoses, making it an important global public health issue.
Much of the burden of viral hepatitis is in developing countries among people who inject drugs.
Injecting drug use is an important factor for transmission of viral hepatitis with the viruses more efficiently spread through unsafe drug injection than HIV.
Research and Public Health Focus
Continue to follow a cohort of people who inject drugs with or at risk of hepatitis C using a social network approach
In Myanmar, harm reduction, needle and syringe services, overdose prevention and management
Outreach services to friends and family of people who inject drugs.
Generated new evidence about ways to improve the health and social burden of injecting drug use in Australia and developed tools for translating research into policy and practice.
This website was developed with the generous support of a donor.
Burnet Institute (Australia) is located on the traditional land of the Boon Wurrung people and we offer our respects to their Elders past and present. We recognise and respect the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this land.
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