Was ‘idiot’ politics to blame for Australia’s syphilis epidemic?
The Federal Government is finally addressing the outbreak, but not before the death of six newborns
‘She was struggling to get the girl to come back for treatment so she told her that if she didn’t come back, all her hair would fall out.”
This is a GP talking about the psychology employed by one of her colleagues — an Aboriginal health worker — for patient recalls. Both are at the heart of a battle against the syphilis outbreak that has been raging across Australia for the past eight years.
