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  1. CW: Cost at $78. Price at $80,000

    Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it.

    “Normally you have a virus, and your body fights it off or your body fights it to a standstill and you just have it forever, basically, and hope it remains dormant more or less,” Laufer said. “The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.”

    The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill.

    “Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.”

    So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong.

    “It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?”

    The above lines were written for paid subscribers and are excerpt from #404Media 404media.co/right-to-repair-fo @law

    #pharma #pharmacy #pharmaceutics #Hepatitis #HepatitisC #cure #illness #health #medicine #DIY #pirating #counterfeit #free #patents #research #money #law #FederalLaw #intellectualProperty

  2. #KINutzen

    Ein Forscherteam hat mithilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz die #Proteinstrukturen der #Flaviviridae-#Virenfamilie untersucht, zu der u.a. #HepatitisC, #Zika und #Dengue gehören. Dadurch wurden neue Glykoproteine entdeckt, die entscheidend für das Eindringen der #Viren in #Wirtszellen sind. Besonders bei Hepatitis C wurden neue #Eintrittsmechanismen entschlüsselt, was die Entwicklung von Impfstoffen erleichtern könnte.

    #KünstlicheIntelligenz #virologie

    tino-eberl.de/nutzen-kuenstlic

  3. R to @ECDC_EU: Effective prevention measures exist for both #hepatitisB and #hepatitisC including vaccination against #HBV and harm reduction measures for preventing transmission of blood-borne infections through injecting drug use.

    Read more about #HBV:
    vaccination-info.europa.eu/en/

    [2024-07-28 17:52 UTC]

  4. R to @ECDC_EU: Effective prevention measures exist for both #hepatitisB and #hepatitisC including vaccination against #HBV and harm reduction measures for preventing transmission of blood-borne infections through injecting drug use.

    Read more about #HBV:
    vaccination-info.europa.eu/en/

    [2024-07-28 17:52 UTC]

  5. R to @ECDC_EU: Approximately 3.6 million people in the EU/EEA are chronically infected with #hepatitisB virus (#HBV) and 1.8 with #hepatitisC virus (#HCV).

    Check latest data: ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/

    [2024-07-28 17:52 UTC]

  6. R to @ECDC_EU: Approximately 3.6 million people in the EU/EEA are chronically infected with #hepatitisB virus (#HBV) and 1.8 with #hepatitisC virus (#HCV).

    Check latest data: ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/

    [2024-07-28 17:52 UTC]

  7. R to @ECDC_EU: Chronic #hepatitis, caused by #hepatitisB & #hepatitisC virus infections, is among the main risk factors for #LiverCancer, the 6th leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Europe, accounting for nearly 55 000 deaths in 2022.

    Learn more about #hepatitis: ecdc.europa.eu/en/viral-hepati

    [2024-07-28 17:52 UTC]

  8. 😶 More than 3,000 people have #died in the UK after being #infected with #HIV and #hepatitisC in the 1970s and 1980s after receiving #transfusions or blood products from the #NHS.

    This afternoon, #RishiSunak will #apologise to the #thousands of #victims of the #scandal which the Infected Blood Inquiry has found could and should have been avoided.

    standard.co.uk/news/uk/infecte

  9. R to @ECDC_EU: An urgent scaling-up of testing is needed to identify people with #hepatitisB and #hepatitisC early in the stages of infection, and to link them to care to reduce complications such as #cirrhosis and #liver cancer.

    [2024-04-25 17:54 UTC]

  10. These 3 Infections Can Now Be Detected With One Drop of Blood

    From the article - "Research presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Denmark showed that a single drop of blood can now detect HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C."

    #PSA #STI #STD #VenerealDisease #VD #SexualHealth #SafeSex #SaferSex #SexuallyTransmittedDiseases #HIV #AIDS
    #HIVAwareness #HepatitisB #HepatitisC

    Credit - HIV Plus Magazine

    URL for the article is below:
    hivplusmag.com/testing/these-3

  11. Lawmakers all over the country are calling on prisons to explain their poor rates of treating #HepatitisC.

    Glad to see my colleague Nick Florko's #HepC reporting get results.

    Original 8-part series: statnews.com/death-sentence/

    Story: statnews.com/2023/01/06/offici

  12. Digging into a topic that's new to me -- hepatitis C treatment. Know someone who's doing interesting work in this area? Please point me their way! #hepatitisc #hcv