I think that’s the real reason for the delay. The trials are a smokescreen whilst they put practices into place imo. When you look at the figures, they make about $70 US in royalties on a 12 week supply sold in India. A 12 week course in the UK costs the NHS just shy of £40,000 ($61,000 US) +VAT. If they stop just 100 treatments from leaking through from India to the UK, that’s well over $3,000,000 NETT profit in warehoused customers waiting to be made. I know most of us don’t drink, but it’s sobering (and quite nauseating) when you look at the cold, hard figures.

Have a look at the link in the post at the bottom of the page below Slim:

http://fixhepc.com/forum/search.html?query=easl%20pdf&childforums=1&ids=

It has all the up-to-date options in it.

The fixhepc.com forum is far and away the best hepc resource on the www. Notwithstanding all the great info and discussion about generics, this place (and particularly Dr Freeman) cuts through all the bs surrounding pharmaceuticals and medicine that is created by Big Pharma and the big healthcare providers that is in turn worshipped on most of the hepc-related www.

The forum needed tidying up and re-organising because it has grown so quickly, and that is now happening. Any and all suggestions regarding this are most welcome for consideration.

The ‘fixhepc franchise’. Could be a money-spinner Doc. The thing is, we need to spread and diversify to really make this thing grow and work. More forums, blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, Google groups and more are all needed (and all cross-referencing and working with each other) to make it impossible to suppress/marginalise info about what is out there and what we can do.

Headache seems to come with the cold bug that’s going around Vicki. My wife and son also have colds, and they both keep complaining about headaches. We had to come home early from a day out yesterday because my son was struggling with this. Like I say to everyone, the results of your first blood tests will make you feel much better.

I found this:

Exposing poorly redacted PDFs

It’s difficult to know why this might have happened. The www is full of malicious hackers trawling sites and looking for opportunities simply because they can.

I think the important thing is that we should be ultra-careful with personal info on places such as this if we want to retain anonymity. Obviously, there has to be a balance, otherwise there would be a lot of useful info that we wouldn’t share. Anyone with the will, a large budget and prepared to put in physical detective work can have a good chance to track down someone from snippets of general personal info that person has put online. But, as I said, that would take a major effort.

Just think twice about what info you are posting. I certainly will.

Btw, good advice from Em about making a copy of documents you want to upload, and physically obliterating personal info before uploading.

Greg’s posted an update on Mesochem company policy on his blog. It’s the October 10 post:

http://hepatitisctreatment.homestead.com/generic-daclatasvir.html

Fascinating stuff about Benitec.

On the subject of Big Pharma, I’m reminded of the opening lines of William Burroughs’ sci-fi novel Nova Express, written over 50 years ago, and quite prophetic:

“Listen to my last words anywhere. Listen to my last words any world. Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory to take what is not yours. To sell the ground from unborn feet forever –

“Don’t let them see us. Don’t tell them what we are doing –”

“Not The Cancer Deal with The Venusians –”

“Not the Green Deal – Don’t show them that –”

“Not the Orgasm Death –”

“Not the ovens –”

Listen: I call you all. Show your cards all players. Pay it all pay it all pay it all back. Play it all pay it all play it all back. For all to see. In Times Square. In Piccadilly.

“Premature. Premature. Give us a little more time.”

Time for what? More lies? Premature? Premature for who? I say to all these words are not premature. These words may be too late. Minutes to go. Minutes to foe goal –

“Top Secret – Classified – For The Board – The Elite – The Initiates – ”

Are these the words of the all-powerful boards and syndicates of the earth? These are the words of liars cowards collaborators traitors. Liars who want time for more lies, Cowards who can not face your “dogs” your “gooks” your “errand boys” your “human animals” with the truth”

Fact is, Big Pharma views us as cash cows. Literally. We’re all just expendable “human animals” to them. The same goes with big business in general. You get to see it in a more open and feral way in third world countries where they don’t really care who knows. In our first world countries it’s all put behind a veneer of respectability, but it’s uglier because it happens on a so much bigger scale.

UGH!!!

It’s one of the first questions they always ask. I always tell them it’s probably from sharing a toothbrush/razor with my brother, who’s been registered as a heroin addict since he was 21, and who had a hepC-related liver transplant last year. Their attitude always noticably improves. But my interactions with the NHS on this have still been mostly sh1t, my GP practice notwithstanding.