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Harvoni and HepC in the Brain, Fantastic News
Chip:
A close friend of mine with both HepC and Aids nearly died twice after being treated for his HepC in the brain using older treatments.
He is 100% cured and is enjoying good health now that his HepC is gone.
It only took 3 months of Harvoni treatment with no side effects. He is immensely pleased.
An amazing drug provided free in Oz.
Jega:
Harvoni truly is a miracle drug. It a couple months it can cure nearly everyone with Genotype-1 which is most people! With insurance it can still be incredibly expensive in the United States. But without insurance it can be over $90,000!! Drug Tourism is a real thing since it can cost 1% of that in India.
http://www.fiercepharma.com/sales-and-marketing/hep-c-drug-tourism-has-begun-as-patients-seek-harvoni-sovaldi-overseas
DeadCat:
--- Quote from: Jega on August 19, 2016, 10:52:52 PM ---Harvoni truly is a miracle drug. It a couple months it can cure nearly everyone with Genotype-1 which is most people! With insurance it can still be incredibly expensive in the United States. But without insurance it can be over $90,000!! Drug Tourism is a real thing since it can cost 1% of that in India.
http://www.fiercepharma.com/sales-and-marketing/hep-c-drug-tourism-has-begun-as-patients-seek-harvoni-sovaldi-overseas
--- End quote ---
There are some great things about the US but there is some unspeakable evils to it as well. The insurance companies and pharmaceuticals are simply putting profit ahead of lives. IIRC most people who contracted Hep-C are now past 50 and approaching Medicare age. So, if they spent the average of $94,000 to rid them of hep-c now will cost the insurance companies much more as these same people live into old age and their heath care costs rise aong with their years. But if they die of complications of Hep-C before they get into their 70's they will not only save the $94,000 but also all their covered health care expenses they will incur a s seniors for the rest of their lives.
I am so, so glad that although I did have hep-C that i was one of th elucky 30% who's body fought it off without medication. That old cure with interferon was supposed to be so hard on your body that you quaified for temporary disability while you were being treated and IIRC it took about a year. I had a fiend who did it in the 90's and he was barely functional the whole time.
Here is a blurb on Harvoni costs in the US:
$94,500
Harvoni cost in the US – $94,500 per treatment. If you are looking for cheap Harvoni price don't look at the US. In the United States the price of Harvoni is the highest in the world. With an average cost of $1,125 per Harvoni pill, it is one of the most expensive drugs on the market.
Griffin:
That is awesome, now if harvoni was available to everyone then this world would be in a much better place. I was reading the other day how since most jails and prisons only have one electric hair clipper that a lot of inmates are actually catching hep c from it, and that there is no proper cleaning sprays for it that instantly kills aids, and hep but hep c lives longer outside the body then HIV so its a bigger threat in situations like those.
I remember everyone in my pod was giving me shit about not cutting my hair and looking like a school boy and shit I told them I wanted to look as white and innocent as possible since my hair wasn't long, but wasn't short either. Really I didn't want to catch hep C(probably being to much of a pussy germaphobe but hey I have bad enough luck as it is.) So i just kept making up excuses not to cut it, and to use the straight razor on my face. jails are so fucked.
dude in my pod cut his tongue in half like a lizard wit a blade from the shaving razor with Zero after care all his tatts were from prison I am surprised more poeple don't catch shit from doing stuff liek that. I have pierced my ears several times and my noses with clothing pins but that is as far as i have gone to shit like that.
This is kind of what my hair looked like (not me) maybe a tiny bit longer. so i wanted to look as innocent and schoolboyish as possible for the judge and didn't want the hepc infected electric razor near me.
Chip:
noses ? I'll bet you smell great ! :P ::)
But seriously, that was a smart move by not sharing personal hygeine tools of any kind.
Oz is serious about stopping HepC, at all cost. This is a fantastic drug that is well tolerated.
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