Hep C treatments Egypt

[briccolone]

Hi all,

I'm not a hep c sufferer but I though I'd share this as its a good news story and my friend Wahid Doss is one of the guys responsible for rolling this out.

nytimes.com/2015/12/16/heal...

all the best

K

[RodeoJoe]

Yes a very interesting article. Good in many respects, but does that mean that many people in the west will still not get treatment because of the price? I think the last quote by the chief executive of Pharco, a major Egyptian drugmaker sums it up for me:

And what happens if foreigners infected with hepatitis C in developed countries begin to see Egypt as the place to lay hands on a fast and cheap cure?

If an uninsured American patient “has a prescription from an Egyptian doctor, should we stop him?” Mr. Helmy said.

“You cannot prevent people who are sick from getting medicine,” he added. “It’s a human right.”

[briccolone in reply to RodeoJoe]

Yes that's why I posted it..I'm sure there will be that kind of health tourism

[ballie52]

My husband was one of many in the rural areas of Egypt that got contaminated with the dirty needles they used in Egypt.

He never knew he had hep c until after we married over 25yrs ago..I contracted hep c from him although never knew until my husband got sick..he ended up with liver cancer and got a transplant ..he needed another one 7yrs later due to reinfection of his new liver..The second one had a clot in the artery so he had another done 3 days later so 3 liver transplants in total. .many complications and a lot of touch and go plus 2mths in ICU he finally came through it all..what a hard 10 yrs this has been for me and my 4 kids as they were very young at the early stage.

Now my turn i now have cirrhosis and i am waiting to be treated. . 4 family dead so far all under 55..sad story indeed..but I have got so many friends and family now getting svr due to the roll out of Harvoni in Egypt right now.

Egypt has along way to go and it needs Education in the country on how to stop the spread but at least they now have acknowledged the huge problem and are trying to cure it..not from the famous kofta machine that the army had claimed a cure but from the getting the right drugs to put an end to this nightmare for the people of Egypt. .rant over Lol

[briccolone in reply to ballie52]

sounds absolutely terrible -very sorry to hear that

[cityman62 in reply to ballie52]

Respect.

[ballie52]

At the moment strict rules apply..if it was that easy I would have got access to Sovaldi by now as my husbands family have a few doctors..as yet I am still on the waiting list here right now..so not easy to get access right now for outsiders. .but who knows in the future as anything can happen in Egypt!

[ballie52]

Sorry not Harvoni yet in Egypt still Sovaldi!