‘Changed my life’: hepatitis treatment offers hope but not enough receiving care, report finds

People like David Clune have been saved by medical breakthroughs, but many still don't know the risks or can't access doctors

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In 1989 David Clune was a young dad with four children when he was diagnosed with hepatitis B and C. Being told he wouldn't get to see them grow up was like a spear went through my heart", he remembers.

Clune is not sure how he contracted the virus. However, entering state care in New Zealand at the age of 10, he experienced abuse and neglect as he was cycled through eight different homes, three youth detention centres, one adult remand centre and a psychiatric hospital, and was exposed to shared needles for tattooing and drugs.