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Friday, December 9, 2016
News Recap
There was not much news on the LOCAL front this past week except for an excellent speech written and given at a World AIDS Day rally in Vancouver by Daryl Luster (We Have Not Abandoned the Principles or Communities We Serve, Neither Should PHAC), and an update on the status of persons with disabilities in BC. Because the government is not treating everyone with HepC, we have developed an aging population where many have progressed to serious liver disease and suffer disabilities. The situation stinks major. A handful of protesters, most of whom had disabilities, gathered in downtown Vancouver Saturday to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, protesters say B.C. isn’t doing enough).
Also kudos to the volunteers from HepCBC who ran an Info Booth at Uptown Mall last week and to Laurel Gloslee and Cheryl Reitz for their presentation at PEERS in Victoria, which was well-attended!
In other news:
Kudos also to Tina Hill in New Zealand for taking a stand against doctors in NZ who refuse to help monitor treatment with imported DAA generics (NZ: SDHB slated for hep C stand).
Gilead has filed a new drug application (NDA) in the USA for Sof/Vel/Vox a once-daily single tablet salvage therapy for HCV Genotype 1-6 prior treatment failure with DAAs (Gilead Submits New Drug Application to U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Investigational Single Tablet Regimen Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir/Voxilaprevir)
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