Accessing hepatitis C resources while experiencing homelessness
"After I got cured of Hep C was when I started gaining education on what was actually running through my body, and then I started doing workshops on harm reduction..." -Pat, hepatitis C patient
Transcript
Hep C was never a concern of mine, not even when I started using needles.
It wasn't until I tested for hep C that it became something that was even
supposed to matter to me. [GENTLE MUSIC]
I didn't have access to many resources while I was experiencing homelessness besides food resources and harm reduction resources.
But in regards to health care services, there wasn't much outreach. After I got cured of hep C was when I started, like,
gaining education on what was actually running through my body, and then I started doing workshops on harm reduction and hep C in order to end the epidemic and, like, provide
some preventative care out there. I own a nonprofit where I teach free, nutritional lectures to people, and we
talk about cardiovascular, and diabetes, and prevention. But in the meantime, while I'm there talking about, like, nutrition and talking about,
you know, some of the deprivation that I experienced and the food insecurities and housing insecurities that I experienced in front of these populations of people,
they hear me overcoming many different traumatic spaces, and they begin to believe that they can do it too.
And they do. [AUDIO LOGO]
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