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Join us as we go beyond the statistics to explore the human impact of one of the greatest health crises of our time. Over 350 million people are living with viral hepatitis worldwide. The Hep-cast is about the people whose lives have been changed by viral hepatitis and those fighting to eliminate it as a public health threat by 2030. Guests include people living with viral hepatitis, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and activists. They will expose the human cost of this cruel virus an ...
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S2#4 Health equality: fighting for testing and treatment among migrant and refugee populations
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“I never felt the need of sharing my story at work, because I don't know how much they know about hepatitis B, and the moment they know that hepatitis B is contagious they would judge me” says Sidney Vo, a hepatitis B advocate who found out she was living with hepatitis B when she was pregnant with her son in her home country of Vietnam in 2007. A …
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S2 #3 Inside Prisons: The hepatitis care pathway for incarcerated people
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“We have these little conversations privately, as discreetly as possible, because there is a lot of stigma in prison settings… these guys know that we've been to prison so when we're speaking to some of these people, it really makes a difference” says Clive Williams, a peer support lead for The Hepatitis C Trust, who previously lived with hepatitis…
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S2 #2 Youth Can’t Wait – Empowering Young People in the Fight against Hepatitis
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David Urick was born with hepatitis B but was only told when he was teenager. The confusion and stigma that followed had a profound and life changing impact on overcoming drug use, attempted suicide and depression. In this episode, David from the U.S. joins Professor Manal El-Sayed, a professor of paediatrics at Ain Shams University in Egypt, and A…
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S2 #1 Women Leading the Fight to Protect the Next Generation from Hepatitis
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“I was nervous being a first-time mum, but also about potentially passing hepatitis B to my child” says Nafisa Yussf, a Hepatitis Community Advocate living with hepatitis B in Australia. In this first episode of series 2, Dr Sarah Jarvis is joined by Nafisa Yussf and two other passionate women: Cynthia Raissa Tamandjou, a Medical Virologist based i…
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In Series Two of the Hep-cast we will focus on the lives of those impacted by viral hepatitis globally, including mothers, young people, people who have been incarcerated, refugees and migrants. The Hep-cast is a collaboration between the World Hepatitis Alliance and Gilead Sciences. The Hep-cast is fully funded by Gilead Sciences Europe Limited. J…
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S1 #7 The Global Movement to Eliminate Viral Hepatitis
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In this season's final episode, our panel discusses the power of the global hepatitis movement and their willingness to achieve the elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat, including how to overcome the challenges that lie ahead. Our host, Dr Sarah Jarvis, is joined by Charles Gore, hepatitis advocate and founder of the World Hepat…
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S1 #6 UK in Focus: Collaborate to Eliminate
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This episode speaks to three women whose organisations are working together to achieve the elimination of hepatitis C in their community. Our host, Dr Sarah Jarvis, is joined by Shabana Begum, the South Asian Project Officer at The Hepatitis C Trust, Stacey Smith, Director of Nursing at Humankind and Diane Williams, Hepatitis C Network Manager for …
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S1 #5 UK in Focus: Elimination is Possible
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In the first of our two ‘UK in Focus’ episodes, our panel discusses the current status of hepatitis C elimination in the UK and share good practice initiatives that are making elimination possible. Our host, Dr Sarah Jarvis, is joined by Professor Graham Foster, Professor of Hepatology at Queen Mary University of London, Rachel Halford, CEO of the …
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S1 #4 Ending the chain of transmission
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This episode focuses on the role of harm reduction services in protecting vulnerable people from hepatitis C. Host Sarah Jarvis hears from Heidi Fridriksdottir, Project Manager of the TrapHepC initiative in Iceland – where they have already reached the WHO service targets for hepatitis C elimination –, Aura Roig, Director of the grass-roots, women-…
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S1 #3 Breaking Barriers to Treatment
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In this episode our focus turns to treatment as we explore the power of cure and how to successfully take treatment to the people who need it most. Host Sarah Jarvis is joined by Maka Gogia, Program Director of the Georgian Harm Reduction Network, George Kalamitsis, Chair of the Hellenic Liver Patient Association in Athens and Alex Thompson, Direct…
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S1 #2 Finding the Missing Millions
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This second episode focusses on testing and how finding the ‘missing millions’ is essential to eliminate hepatitis C. Our host, Dr Sarah Jarvis, is joined by Manal El Sayed from the Egyptian National Committee for the Control of Viral Hepatitis, Sonjelle Shilton, Deputy Head of HCV access at Global NGO FIND and Jennifer Slepin, who co-founded HepCa…
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This first episode explores how people who have been affected by hepatitis C are leading the fight against the virus in their communities. Sarah Jarvis, our host, is joined by Cary James of the World Hepatitis Alliance, Professor Carla Treloar from the University of New South Wales and Tony McClure from the Hepatitis C Trust. The Hep-cast is a coll…
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The Hep-cast is about the people fighting to eliminate hepatitis C (HCV), a silent killer that affects 71 million people worldwide. Join us as we go beyond the statistics to explore the human impact of this crisis. The Hep-cast is a collaboration between the World Hepatitis Alliance and Gilead Sciences. The Hep-cast is fully funded by Gilead Scienc…
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