Women Aged 50+

Brooke was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late 1990s. On receiving her diagnosis, she worried that she might die and that her children would have to grow up without her.

Carol runs a small business in a regional town in New South Wales. She was first diagnosed with hepatitis C in the early 2000s, but it cleared spontaneously, without treatment.

Dana first learnt about hepatitis C in the early 2000s when she had a sexual health check after meeting a new partner.

Giovanna was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the mid-1990s. Experiences in a hepatitis C support group put her off interferon-based treatment

In the early 1990s Gracie found out she had hepatitis C after her new partner asked her to get tested for it.

After her late husband was diagnosed with hepatitis C-related in the early 1990s, Gretchen was diagnosed with the virus too.

Heather was diagnosed with hepatitis C after her daughter was diagnosed with it through ‘a routine pregnancy screen’.

In 1994, when she was still living in Egypt, Rashida was diagnosed with hepatitis C

Regina was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2009 after a blood test for a hysterectomy showed she had the virus

Sana was first diagnosed with a ‘blood infection’ in India in about 2008, before being diagnosed with hepatitis C in Australia in 2019