Ways to Love Your Liver this February

• Protect yourself from hepatitis A and B - get immunized
• Eliminate alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs from your life
• Discuss all prescription medications, vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements that you're taking with your gastroenterologist
• Eat a low-fat, low cholesterol, low sodium, high-fiber diet with lots of fruit and vegetables.  Go here for recipe ideas.
• Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water a day (replace sugary drinks with water)
• Eat dark chocolate - perfect for Valentine's Day!

There are many other ways to love your liver.  Check them out here. 

Hep C Connection opened for business in 1995, thanks to Ann Jesse and a group of hepatitis C patients and health professionals. From the outset, we have lobbied at the Federal and State levels for funds to raise awareness and to promote prevention, testing and treatment.

Through the years, we have successfully:

1. Established a hepatitis C appropriation from the Colorado General Assembly beginning in 2000 and still in force, and then successfully defended it in difficult financial times;
2. Passed a 2014 recommendation to all Colorado primary care physicians to test baby boomers for the hepatitis C virus. We were one of three states to make this happen last year.
3. Added Worker's Compensation coverage of job-related exposure to or contraction of hepatitis C for peace officers, firefighters and emergency services providers in 2003;
4. Passed Senate Joint Resolutions recognizing Hepatitis Awareness Month, National Testing Day and World Hepatitis Day.

As members of the Chronic Care Collaborative and Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS, we ensure that patients are protected against discrimination, adverse legislative or regulatory action, and that our point of view and unique characteristics are heard by policy makers.

In our role as members of the Hepatitis Appropriation Partnership and National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, we have lobbied members of Congress and their staff regarding more funds for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while providing important education in the process.

Twenty years later, we are seen as strong advocates for patients with the hepatitis C virus, due in part to our understanding that this is a population that doesn't engage in public processes and that this disease can no longer be overlooked. 

 Upcoming Events 

"The Incredible Recent Revolution in Hep C Treatment"  

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Time: Free Dinner 6 pm  / Forum 6:30 pm

Location: Community Room at Our Saviors Lutheran

                9th & Emerson (lower level, enter on the side from Emerson St)

Sponsored by

• TEN (Treatment Educat10n Network),
• AbbVie
• and, the University of Colorado

*If you have dietary restrictions and plan to attend, please let Community Educat10nal Forums know by emailing: forums.colorado@gmail.com

Patient Advocate Network 

Articles of Interest 

Financial Resources 

Looking for financial resources?  Here are two foundations offering financial support to eligible patients that have been prescribed medication for their hepatitis C infection but can't afford the co-insurance requirements -  

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