Hepatitis C petition on the Prime Minister's website

Posted: 14-Dec-2006 << BACK

We have had the following petition approved for the Prime Minister's website

Please would you all take the time to sign it and please forward/publicise this link to anyone you know who would be willing to support it. The more signatures we gain the better and the whole process takes less than a minute.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/HepatitisC/

The petition reads:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to accept that the current public hepatitis C awareness campaign is not working and that the rate of diagnosis is nowhere near enough to prevent thousands of avoidable deaths.

We further petition the Prime Minister to make it a government priority to do far more to diagnose the hundreds of thousands people in the UK who still do not realise that they are infected with this potentially life-threatening disease and then provide dedicated funding for their care and treatment".