Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2018
'Jubilant' over drug funding
19 December 2018 - Dunedin hepatitis C campaigner Hazel Heal has received an early Christmas present: news Government drug-buying agency PHARMAC will make medicine available to all people with the liver disease.
About 43% of hepatitis C patients were previously unable to take the PHARMAC funded drugs.
Ms Heal and other campaigners have been fighting for years for ''pangenotypic'' medicine to be funded, so all people with the disease could receive affordable treatment.
