Treatment outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous inmates with hepatitis C in New South Wales prisons

To the Editor: Davis and colleagues recently described outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the Northern Territory who received antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.1 They showed similar outcomes when comparing eight Indigenous people with 88 non-Indigenous people who were assessed for sustained virological response (SVR) after interferon-based treatment — SVR was achieved by 50% and 61%, respectively. Outcomes of therapy for HCV infection in Indigenous Australians had not previously been reported.