Excluding people who use drugs or alcohol from access to hepatitis C treatments – Is this fair, given the available data?

Affiliations

• ¹ The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia.
• ³ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
• ⁴ Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ⁵ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States.
• ⁶ Treatment Action Group, New York, NY, United States.
• ⁷ International Network of People Who Use Drugs, Canberra, Australia; Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League, Canberra, Australia.
• ⁸ National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, New York, NY, United States.
• ⁹ Arud Centres for Addiction Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland.