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I am glad they’re screening for it. I was born to someone who had the virus, but didn’t know I had Hep C myself until I submitted myself to an exceptionally thorough STI testing panel. I say exceptional, because the standard ones I’d done throughout college and early adulthood do not happen to include that particular test. So I feel a bit lucky to have been able to get diagnosed and treated in my mid-20s, before the disease could do much damage.
That's odd. I just looked at what I thought was a pretty standard piss and blood STI test results of my own, and it covered:

- Syphilis

- Hep B

- Hep C

- HIV 1 and 2 and P24

- Chlamydia

- Gonorrhoea

A disease that can stay silent for years, but is also highly curable once detected, seems like exactly the thing you want to screen for more aggressively
Good for you! Could you share the name of that particular test here? I'm confident I'm clear but might want to include that test in case I need to in the future.
i think during that time / place it was risk based - if you didn't know your parent had it (or didn't tell your dr), and weren't an intravenous drug user, etc. its likely no one would have screened for it.
If you're comfortable sharing, did you have any symptoms? Or was it just latent/dormant?
Interesting that it's just England (and not Scotland, Wales, or NI). I realize they all have independent NHSs, but still would assume a program like this would rolled out across all the constituent countries.
Each nation has different social and health issues, each nation makes its own plan.

All four nations NHSes work with a single charity, the Hep C Trust.

They're all following the WHO targets for elimination -- you're hearing about this now soon after World Hepatitis Day (July 28th, as conceived of by the WHO).

https://www.hepctrust.org.uk/blog/2026/07/four-nations-on-th...

As for progress:

- July 2026: Wales doesn't have percentage-of-population counts but here's its latest report: https://phw.nhs.wales/reports/trends-in-the-prevention-diagn...

- November 2025: Scotland believes it has identified and is treating 85% of chronic sufferers: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/surveillance-...

- January 2021: Northern Ireland doesn't publish stats, but has a 2021-2025 plan (there's no 2026- plan issued as far as I know) https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/publications/northern-ireland-h...

I wouldn't have assumed this really because really the whole point of devolution is that they get to choose what to prioritise, so perhaps the other nations choose to do something they consider to be more pressing for their populations.
Each country also has their own Public Health bodies, so pretty much everything related to health is devolved
My guess is that devolution makes these programs and statistics look more separate than they really are
Makes me wonder if this project is the reason for a slight downturn in Liver cancer from 2019 forward in the UK.

https://crukcancerintelligence.shinyapps.io/CancerStatsDataH...

Good for you. We get explosive diarrhea as the prize in the States. Wanna trade?
Nah we are good - We have our problems (including our own version of your guy but he hasn't won yet and is currently running against a man with a bin on his head) but on the whole, nah we are good.
and your freedom model named fable even refuse to answer lots of questions relate to the explosive diarrhea.
I guess someone complained about memory safety and they intend to rewrite hepatitis in Rust.

Not everything has to be rewritten in Rust! Hepatitis is a virus, C is much better suited for that kind of project, Rust is for fungal diseases, not viruses.

Introducing: Hepatitis C++
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Seeing a 36% drop in mortality over a decade is huge progress, but it’s a good reminder that "elimination as a public health threat" still relies heavily on reaching hard to find, undiagnosed populations. The free home-testing push should help bridge that last gap.
Given the recent outbreaks of diseases we should have already eliminated here (for other reasons that "we shouldn't discuss")...

I view this as a wonderful "they don't report in and the coroner doesn't check" type of elimination

I've always found it a bit surprising that we don't all celebrate smallpox elimination day. I think it'd be a great reminder of the victories that humanity has had against the four horsemen.
There is a pretty striking contrast here with the infected blood scandal. The NHS went from being responsible for one of the worst hepatitis C transmission disasters in the country's history to potentially becoming one of the first health systems to eliminate the disease
> Around 50,200 adults are living with hepatitis C, figures for England in 2024 suggest.

> Estimates indicate 84.6% of those living with hepatitis C have been diagnosed - just short of the 90% target.

How do they know there are that many Hep C patients if they haven’t been diagnosed?

In America people still die of tetanus, because vaccines are the devil's love juice.
What a funny headline. It has virtually nothing to do with the actual content of the article.
the other side of this is the science behind the NS5B protein and the meds behind the new hep c cures. This is pretty fascinating stuff. In medicine, it's not often we see a cure like this.
This is great news. Healthcare is such an asset in our pockets.
Second paraggraph:

> The target of treating 80% of all known cases has already been met, and deaths from the virus have fallen by 36% in the last decade, just short of what is needed by 2030.

What is needed by 2030? There is no mention prior to this statement.

Later:

> NHS England says that since 2015, more than 100,000 people have been diagnosed and treated for hepatitis C, meaning the country is already meeting that target.

Again, what target are we talking about??

Much later:

> Prof Frankie Swords, NHS national medical director, added: "England is now leading the world in the mission to eliminate this disease and on course to beat the WHO's 2030 target, but we are determined to keep up the momentum and finish the job.

Finally a target!

FUCK AI

For a second, I thought Hepatitis C was some 1980s C dialect that had memory safety issues.
We eliminated TB too. Then it came back.
So will it be replaced by Hepatitis Rust for memory safety? (I'm sorry, and I'll see myself out, thanks)
The title shows a lack of understanding. BBC has become really low quality.
Just to understand this: When someone says "country England", do they mean "country" like in "nation", considering England a separate nation, or is it a lapse and they mean UK? Is England usually referred to as a country, or just part of a country?

I usually think of a country as equal to a nation, and as far as I know, Wales and Scotland have not split off yet? Is the term "country" not actually that sharply defined?

EDIT: Thanks people, I just asked a question to better understand the terminology, you know ...