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Stories
People without treatment experience
Anthony
Anthony learnt about hepatitis C in 2006, just before he started injecting drugs, because his girlfriend had acquired it.
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Dana
Dana first learnt about hepatitis C in the early 2000s when she had a sexual health check after meeting a new partner.
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Danny
During a period when Danny was partying and consuming drugs regularly, he started to feel unwell and received a hepatitis C diagnosis.
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Evan
Evan was diagnosed with hepatitis C around the late 1990s.
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Gretchen
After her late husband was diagnosed with hepatitis C-related in the early 1990s, Gretchen was diagnosed with the virus too.
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Laura
Laura decided to get tested for hepatitis C in the middle of 2020, because she had shared injecting equipment with a previous partner who had the virus
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Mikey
Mikey learned about hepatitis C when his friend was diagnosed with it around 2017
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Peta
Peta hasn’t been diagnosed with hepatitis C and doesn’t think about it a lot
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Rashida
In 1994, when she was still living in Egypt, Rashida was diagnosed with hepatitis C
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Ricky
Ricky was diagnosed with hepatitis C a month before his interview in 2020
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Rose
Rose was diagnosed with hepatitis C around 1999
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Rusty
Rusty was diagnosed with non-A, non-B hepatitis many years ago
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Sam
When Sam was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2018, he didn’t know much about the virus
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