Jolie wrote: part 2 is written by a Jessica Wapner, a freelance US science writer, activist, blogger, most enjoyable reading.

blogs.plos.org/yoursay/2015/10/15/talkin…-post-will-cost-you/

Thanks Jolie, clever and funny article, worth a read.

Good for you Johnboy. I found so much ignorance out there, particularly concerning transmission (the leper effect) that I shut up about it. I couldn’t be honest in my work environment without risking losing jobs or customers. It’s almost as stigmatised as HIV was.

I’m still waiting for my meds to arrive but getting excited hearing all the positive feedback.
Thanks everyone for the encouragement and all the best with slaying the dragon.

Meanwhile Gilead stocks have been downgraded due ‘to the hullabaloo over high drug prices’.

http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2015/10/02/why-morgan-stanley-downgraded-gilead-valeant-regeneron/

Hi Vicki,

Change.org had a petition targeting Gilead from a US perspective over a year ago, with close to 50,000 signatures:
https://www.change.org/p/gilead-sciences-make-cure-for-hepatitis-c-affordable-for-the-world?recruiter=29648901&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink#petition-letter

And another from the Hep C Coalitian:
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/PETITIONS/HEPC

And one mentioned on Greg Jeffery’s blog:
https://www.change.org/p/hon-susan-ley-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-help-sufferers-of-viral-hepatitis

There are several others (including Avaaz) but they are out of date or focused on a particular country (like Canada or Mexico).

I think it’s an issue that needs to be international, and target not just Gilead but all those involved in regulating pharmaceutical companies.

The Trans Pacific Partnership currently under discussion favours Big Pharma, and getup.org has a petition opposing that:
https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/tpp/tpp/the-dirtiest-deal-youve-never-heard-of