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: Objective: The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in correctional facilities in Australia among people who inject drugs is 60%, with disproportionate effects observed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Following the micro‐elimination of HCV in a Queensland correctional facility (QCF), newly acquired cases began to increase in mid‐2019. Here we discuss the public health response to increasing HCV in a QCF. Methods: Enhanced surveillance was performed to obtain contextual outbreak data on risk factors including injecting drug use, sharing of personal hygiene equipment and do‐it‐yourself‐tattooing. Results: In the sixteen months, there were 250 notifications of new and re‐infected HCV infections in prisoners in the QCF. Qualitative data revealed the leading factor in transmission to be injecting drug use. Conclusions: Drivers for increased HCV transmission in correctional facilities include boredom, waiting lists for opioid substitution programs, changes in injecting behaviours and sharing of injecting paraphernalia. Point‐of‐care testing combined with education and the development of a needle and syringe program may be promising ways forward for managing HCV in correctional facilities. Implications for public health: Correctional facilities are key locations to target sexually transmitted infection (STI) and blood‐borne virus (BBV) testing and treatment as well as health promotion to improve the health of inmates and the communities they return to., In 2018, there was successful micro‐elimination of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a Queensland Correctional Facility (QCF) population following rapid scale‐up of direct‐acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for men with chronic [...]

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off – Gloria Steinem[sup.1] Women live longer than men, however, despite this, women experience poorer health outcomes including [...]

Background: Historically, medical research has, outside of reproductive health, neglected the health needs of women. Medical studies have previously excluded female participants, meaning research data have been collected from males and generalized to females. Knowledge gained from research is translated to clinical education and patient care, and female exclusion may result in gaps in the medical school curricula and textbooks., Materials and Methods: This study involved a desktop review of the Australian Medical Council Standards for assessment and accreditation of primary medical programs, the online publicly available Australian medical school course outlines, and finally, an analysis of the recommended textbooks., Results: There is no fixed or explicit requirement to include women's health in Australian medical school curricula. Medical school course outlines do not adequately include women's health; similarly, clinical medicine textbooks do not account for sex and gender differences., Conclusion: Important sex and gender differences in medicine are not reflected adequately in the medical school course outlines, curricula, or clinical textbooks. This may have significant consequences on women's health., Competing Interests: No competing financial interests exist., (© Lea Merone et al., 2024; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.)