Madden, Annie
Hopwood, Max
Neale, Joanne
Treloar, Carla
Funding for this research was provided by:
PLuS Alliance
Article History
First Online: 1 October 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: This study was funded by the PLuS Alliance and supported by a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health. Annie Madden, Max Hopwood, Joanne Neale and Carla Treloar have no financial interests to declare. Annie Madden has experience of injecting drug use and of receiving treatment for hepatitis C with direct-acting antiviral therapies and has more than 20 years’ experience as an advocate for the rights of people who inject drugs with local and national peer-based organisations run by and for people who use/have used illicit drugs.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The datasets generated during the current study are not publicly available given the sensitive nature of the information collected but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.