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Friday, February 6, 2015

Spain: Hepatitis C patients protest in Madrid demanding access to medicine

Nayara is only 21 years old and has already reached the final stage of Hepatits C, a burden she has had to endure since the day she was born.

She was infected with Hepatitis C by her mother from birth. A disease that kills 12 people a day in Spain alone, according to the platform of those affected.

Dozens of those affected by the disease have gathered with their friends and families outside Gilead's Spanish headquarters to protest. The US pharmaceutical company produces Sovaldi, the medicine that can save the 200,000 people, who like Nayara, are infected by Hepatitis C in Spain.

Read more and watch the video here

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