Simon Lauder reported this story on Monday, February 29, 2016 12:30:00
ELEANOR HALL: A new addition to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme is raising hopes of eradication for a deadly disease which affects 230,000 Australians.
A new generation of antiviral drugs has been found to cure Hepatitis C.
But until now, the drugs have been too expensive for most people to afford.
As Simon Lauder reports.
So we are talking about elimination within say a generation we hope to eliminate Hepatitis C.
SIMON LAUDER: But there's one major obstacle to that. Melanie Eagle says at the moment only about 2 per cent of Hepatitis C carriers seek treatment.
MELANIE EAGLE: We are talking deaths at the same rate as we are talking fatalities in cars.
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