The Hepatitis C Trust is the national UK charity for hepatitis C. It was founded and is now led and run by people with personal experience of hepatitis C and almost all of our Board, staff and volunteers either have hepatitis C or have had it and cleared it after treatment.
Historically, hepatitis C has been neglected, partly because there has been no concerted patient voice. People with hepatitis C have typically kept quiet because it is infectious and because it has been wrongly stigmatised as ‘a drug users’ disease’.
The Trust is committed to changing this, by:
- raising public awareness that this is a virus that can be contracted in many ways
- ending discrimination against people living with hepatitis C
- creating an active community of patients willing to stand up and be heard
- providing information, support and representation for people with hepatitis C