TACKLING HEPATITIS C
* Hepatitis C damages the liver, leading to liver scarring (cirrhosis), liver cancer and liver failure.
* About 230,000 Australians are living with the disease
* Complications kill about 700 a year
* Government has approved the PBS listing of four new generation treatments
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* Cost to fall from $100,000 to $6.10 for concessional patients and $37.70 for others
* In most cases medicines will be taken orally for 8-12 weeks
* Health Minister Sussan Ley says cure rate is more than 90 per cent
SOURCE: Federal Government
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