Lives could be saved with hepatitis C treatment

Monday, May 18, 2015 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

A research team is asking for hepatitis C virus patients to gain improved access to drugs to prevent liver related deaths. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health burden in Australia, with estimates of 230,000 people chronically infected. The research team is calling for the government to subsidise a new therapy which has high cure rates, known as direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy.

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