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Continuing my thoughts linking the data:
So of an estimated 6% of Australia’s HCV diagnosed population treated with DAAs, (0.8 via FHC 5.2 via PBS) approx 13.5% of those in tx or now treated are from a single Doctors integrity and leadership globally.
Again, this should be reflected in global data. If ONLY but how? Raise the volume. Write it on social media. Shame the greed and genocidal maniac that is big Pharma
Okay back to work sorry morning tea
Bottoms up heads down
ArielTalk about perspective Doc
hmy:If each of the 25,000+ GPs who bill Medicare each quarter had started 1 patient a week on treatment then EVERY SINGLE PATIENT in the country would either be on treatment, or already finished.
For the very reason a tiny lump behind the nipple easily removed no other treatment needed, no scar or change to breast, resulted in get well cards, humungous bouquets, time off work, worried looks of empathy……and HepC cost me my siblings etc. blah blah
stigma
Oh and it also helps if a politician or their family are affected just saying.
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ick:' />It makes me sad. Like Ariel said it’s the stigma. Do our public SERVANTS aka government think we are a bunch of sleazy low-lifes who deserve to get sick and die?
Listening to Michaelia Cash bang on about the great deal her department got for the DAAs makes me laugh. And vomit. No performance management obviously. Tell a public servant there’s a $30K bonus in it for them if they can get 50% off the greediad price and it’d be done. Unless greediad slipped them a better incentive of course.
Grrrrrr
Gilead (and the other HepC manufacturers. None of these meds are cheap) are playing chicken with insurers and health systems.
They keep the price high; it guarantees a steady stream of new ill patients. They make big money.
So far, it is cheaper for the payor to wait until advanced illness onset. Yes, it seems in Australia and everywhere except a few countries, that the money is more important than people. Although in Australia, you have access to generics. But the government is censoring the advertising of these meds. I don’t get this, Australia seems to have a confused government.
In Australia, can the pharma companies make donations to political candidates? If so, there is your answer. And of course, most Hep C sufferers (me included) got this through reckless behaviors. Politically, we don’t matter
In first world countries, we are dogshit to the politicians. Drug addicts; wastes of life. Why should society help us?
Third world people get this disease from unsanitary conditions. That’s why there is more sympathy for them.
Take the bone they are throwing you! They are allowing you to buy your own treatment!
Or wait until you qualify for treatment
hmy: ick:' /> 
Third world people get this disease from unsanitary conditions.
No, many “third world people” originally got this disease through medical procedures carried out in ignorance of its existence. Much like I was in ignorance of its existence back in the mid seventies when I acquired it.
And these days the appalling stigma attached to it prevents people all over the world from holding an honest conversation about it which means many still don’t fully understand the risks from medical procedures, recreational drug use or other means.
That’s why there is more sympathy for them.
No sorry, not a lot of sympathy that I can see. The prices of generics over there may look cheap to you and I but consider that “India’s per capita income (nominal) was $1,497 in 2013” and for the Bihar region it was $682 in 2015.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India
So it’s all relative and the reality is that these generic medications are probably little more affordable to the average Indian (or other “third world country”
than the Branded product is to you.It’s a worldwide problem but as you point out the Pharmcos throw money wherever they need to protect their interests. That includes marketing, government and even hepatitis organisations.
G3a since ’78 – Dx ’12 – F4 (2xHCC)
24wk Tx – PEG/Riba/Dac 2013 relapsed
24wk Tx – Generic Sof/Dac/Riba 2015/16 relapsed
16wk Tx – 12/01/17 -> 03/05/17 NS3/NS5a + Generic Sof
SVR7 – 22/06/17 UND
SRV12 – 27/07/17 UND
SVR24 – 26/10/17 UND
Is it really spread by sex? I always thought this wasn’t so?
& what about mozzies?
I know a lot say it isn’t, but I’ve always wondered?! as the mozzies seem to spread so many diseases.
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And my point is that the actual means of transmission is unimportant, most people acquire it through ignorance.
Emphasising just one means is catering to the popular prejudice that is whipped up by the media and helps to reinforce the public stigma and justify the lack of political willpower to deal with the issue.
G3a since ’78 – Dx ’12 – F4 (2xHCC)
24wk Tx – PEG/Riba/Dac 2013 relapsed
24wk Tx – Generic Sof/Dac/Riba 2015/16 relapsed
16wk Tx – 12/01/17 -> 03/05/17 NS3/NS5a + Generic Sof
SVR7 – 22/06/17 UND
SRV12 – 27/07/17 UND
SVR24 – 26/10/17 UND
CJ wrote:Is it really spread by sex? I always thought this wasn’t so?
& what about mozzies?
I know a lot say it isn’t, but I’ve always wondered?! as the mozzies seem to spread so many diseases.
xDr. Freeman can correct me if I’m wrong. It can be transmitted through sex, but for some reason in the majority of people HCV is not transmitted in semen or vaginal fluids.
Mosquitoes? That’s a good question. Zika certainly travels that way.
CJ wrote:Is it really spread by sex? I always thought this wasn’t so?
& what about mozzies?
I know a lot say it isn’t, but I’ve always wondered?! as the mozzies seem to spread so many diseases.
xSex is very low risk in monogamous couples. The risk increases with rough sex, promiscuity and gay penetrative sex.
Mosquitoes don’t spread HCV. Mosquitoes only suck blood, they can’t re-inject it but they do inject saliva. Any virus being spread by mosquitoes needs to be able to infect the mosquito and then replicate in it so that it can make the journey from swallowed blood to injected saliva. As mosquitoes don’t have livers HCV is unable to replicate even if it didn’t get destroyed by the mosquito’s digestive system so it can’t make that transfer.
Edit: Zika does infect mosquitoes which is why they transmit it via a mosquito-human-mosquito cycle.
G3a since ’78 – Dx ’12 – F4 (2xHCC)
24wk Tx – PEG/Riba/Dac 2013 relapsed
24wk Tx – Generic Sof/Dac/Riba 2015/16 relapsed
16wk Tx – 12/01/17 -> 03/05/17 NS3/NS5a + Generic Sof
SVR7 – 22/06/17 UND
SRV12 – 27/07/17 UND
SVR24 – 26/10/17 UND
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