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Why are buyers clubs needed? Here is a really good example from Indonesia. Unfortunately the cost of generics, although down to around US$600 (about £450) for a 12-week course of sofosbuvir plus daclatasvir or sofosbuvir/ledipasvir (Harvoni), is still too high relative to local incomes.
A community-led buyers club in Indonesia has helped more than 100 people get generic direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs to treat hepatitis C and is seeing a high cure rate, according to a presentation at the 25th International Harm Reduction Conference (HR17) last week in Montréal.
An estimated 3 million people in Indonesia are living with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to Sindi Putri of the Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC). The number of people who inject drugs is estimated at nearly 106,000, of whom 77% are thought to have hepatitis C. Co-infection with HIV and HCV is common in this population.
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