Volume 178 - Issue 10
Injecting drug use in Australia: needle/syringe programs prove their worth, but hepatitis C still on the increase
Authors: Matthew G Law and Robert G Batey
Med J Aust 2003; 178 (10): 494. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05323.x
Published online: 2 June 2003
Published online: 2 June 2003
Re: Injecting drug use in Australia: needle/syringe programs prove their worth, but hepatitis C still on the increase, by Law MG and Batey RG in the 3 March 2003 issue of the Journal (Med J Aust 2003; 178: 197-198). Dr Batey's position was incorrectly given as Director, Gastroenterology Department, John Hunter Hospital. His position is Clinical Chair, Division of Medicine, John Hunter Hospital.
The html and pdf versions of the article on the website were corrected on 12 May 2003.
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