YES!!!!!!

Great article Hieupham! … looks like SOMEBODY got to Richard Woolverage! That deserves a hearty “YES! ” indeed

Good article … I left a comment responding to David Piper:

David Pieper • 3 hours ago

This is a non-story as the drugs are now available to every Australian for the cost of a regular prescription. There are no hepatitis C patients that are angered, but there are over 13,000 of them who are delighted to have commenced treatment since March with drugs have been made available on the PBS

GT2: Really? 13,000 out of 230,000 HCV sufferers in Australia … 5% may be “delighted” … however, 95% are angry … now that’s an ongoing story …

Went back to check if there was as response to it.

Yep … it was deleted … say no more.

P.S.

Always remember … whoever pays the piper calls the tune …

Great article – thanks for posting Hieupham.

Anne says ” The TGA complaint follows the letter of the law but ignores the spirit of humanity”. Indeed!

Hi guys

My comment was up, then down, now back up … you may be right … just takes time to be moderated.

Thanks

GT2

Waiting

Yep you’re still there GT2

Well done all
I’m under a nom de plume on that Pieper thread in my reply due to Australia’s stupid prejudices and all.
Anyway,
I wanted to know more about this man who is clearly not about treating all asap from his glib comment. He has a strong profile for the PBS.

Also, Thankyou Hieu amazing reply to the other discreditor suggesting we are guinea pigs!

Ty also international friends

https://www.hepmag.com/blog/will-prioritised-treatment

https://mobile.twitter.com/seymour_akshun

According to the information available from the Australian Govt there are/were (latest update to site made in 2014) 747 Public and 612 Private Hospitals nationwide.
A wiki list of Australia’s Hospitals is here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Australia
Of those, Gastroenterological services are offered in the larger facilities and either Day Clinic Outpatient Services; or a Private Gastroenterologist running a private clinic within a Private Hospital is likely to be available for any HCV sufferer. There are also chains of Gastroenterological and Endo Specialist Clinics in Australia. Many are available to the HCV patient.

“It is estimated that 130-150 million people worldwide are chronically infected with hepatitis C. (WHO Hepatitis C Fact Sheet)
In Australia, it is estimated that 230,470 are living with chronic hepatitis C. (Kirby Institute, Annual Surveillance Report (ASR) 2015 – p12)” source: http://www.hepatitisaustralia.com/hepatitis-c-facts/about-hep-c

David Pieper states in response to the article

“Hep C sufferers’ ire at activist-website ban”

that: “there are over 13,000 of them who are delighted to have commenced treatment since March with drugs have been made available…” (On PBS)

FixHepC has assisted perhaps just under 2000 Australians I am supposing. That’s since last year, with the data really coming in to the point where it’s heard at EASL favourably. As a percentage of the diagnosed HCV patients in Australia just say at a rounded off guesstimate of 2000 treated via Fixhc I get roughly 0.8% of HCV in Oz treated, 95 ish % successfully and if retreating then aim for 100%

That’s out of one Doctors personal practice. And without a magic political carpet ride.

So since the PBS in March, the percentage treated by the vast resources I outlined above in the hospitals paragraph, I get 5.2%

I say count the patients on PBS in any liver clinic on one hand, okay so maybe a thumb print short but close enough and I feel that from patients anecdotal observations.

Imagine if the generic argument became a non argument; based on this glaringly obvious data FixHepC actually convinced the World that generic DAAs are the only way to eradicate the virus in the firing line of big pharma and corporate greed and the political handshakes.

Ariel