{"id":42636,"date":"2014-09-03T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=42636"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T20:33:34","slug":"helping-keep-communities-hep-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/helping-keep-communities-hep-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping To Keep Our Communities Hep-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Thaddeus Pham, viral hepatitis prevention coordinator, state Department of Health<\/em><\/p>\n

Help Free Hawaii hepatitis care coordinator Jane Hanson opened up her email June 26 to find some good news:<\/p>\n

“Hi Jane: I wanted to tell you that I finished my treatment … the hepatitis C virus is no longer detectable in my liver. My liver has also started to regenerate … Thank you for your help.”<\/p>\n

This email was extremely satisfying for Hanson, given the challenges the client faced before being able to think about addressing his hepatitis C infection.<\/p>\n

Hanson used her considerable skills and social work experience to get her client into stable housing so that he would be ready to take the hepatitis C medication that would save his life.<\/p>\n

From homelessness to access to quality medical care, people living with viral hepatitis C and B can face many barriers to keeping themselves and their families healthy.<\/p>\n

Hawaii has the highest rate of liver cancer in the country, and the leading causes in Hawaii are hepatitis B and C. Hepatitis B especially impacts Asians and Pacific Islanders, while hepatitis C is especially high among baby boomers (born 1945-1965). Yet, most people don’t know about hepatitis.<\/p>\n

To address this silent epidemic, the Hep Free Hawaii coalition was formed in 2011 and now consists of more than 75 partner agencies and more than 1,100 individual members.<\/p>\n

Hep Free Hawaii’s mission is to raise awareness about and increase access to hepatitis services for our local communities.<\/p>\n

Since 2012, Hanson and her colleague Kendra Randerson have been providing care-coordination services through Hep Free Hawaii for people living with hepatitis B and C, and they have been able to help more than 125 people deal with these potentially fatal viral infections.<\/p>\n

Without the coordinators’ help, many of their clients could end up with severe liver disease or liver cancer, both of which can be caused by chronic hepatitis B and C.<\/p>\n

You can help keep our communities “Hep Free” by signing up as a volunteer or partner agency. To learn more, go to hepfree-hawaii.org, or contact Thaddeus Pham at hepfree-hawaii@gmail.com or 436-5884.<\/p>\n

Hawaii charitable organizations may send requests for space in either Proof Positive or the free advertisement below to dchapman@midweek.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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