Dr. Su Wang is the assistant director of medical affairs at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York. She learned of her Hepatitis B infection after giving blood as a college student and later learned that her mother also has Hepatitis B. View video on Viral Hepatitis Action.
Joe's Hep B Story Lookit Design designed this website to support Hep Free NYC in raising awareness, and in building the empowered network necessary to effectively prevent, manage and eliminate Hepatitis B & C in NYC. The President and Co-Founder, Graham Murray personally sup...
Adversity Brings Strength | Hep B Story of Jan Carl Park On a Thursday afternoon, the sun set as a man with a firm handshake and bright eyes that bounce from blue to green walked in. Jan Carl Park, New York City Health Department Director for the HIV Planning Council, and a forme...
Becoming an Advocate for Health in the Russian Community: Gregori’s Story Hep C Story Try to teach somebody:  they will resist. Give to somebody advice: usually they will do the opposite. Tell them your real life story: they might pay attention. Here is my story. Most of the ...
easy to lose yourself in a city so big. Lo-Anne’s Hep C Story In 2005 About four years ago, in one of the newer subway cars, lit up so much you feel like you are in a fish bowl, I sat across from a poster with a man’s face, part of it looked, looked, well, like a burnt marshm...
An Organ Transplant Saved My Life. Tony’s Hep C Story Tony is an advocate for the NY Organ Donor Network. Tony had many operations for bleeding ulcers as a young man and received many blood transfusions. Later in life, he went on to work in a dialysis center. Ironically, he Â...
I’m Not Just My Voice, I’m My Brother and Father’s Voice | Hep C Peer Navigator Story of Asia Betancourt Asia’s story is about family, advocacy and prevention. Her experience with Hep C began when her twin brother and father were diagnosed with Hep C and died due to compl...
Nothing compares to the feeling of helping others | Hep C Story of Ed Manchess The energy at BOOM! Health, a non-profit organization that provides citywide HIV/AIDS and harm reduction services, was both calming and electrifying, as Ed Manchess, the Director of Harm Reduction Serv...
HIV Undetectable, Hep C Cured! Hep C Peer Navigator Story of Louie Jones Louie Jones is a peer navigator at Harlem United He participated in the IDUHA Hep C Peer Navigation Program. His story is one of resilience, advocacy and attaining a goal he never imagined possible: being c...
