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...

Becoming an Advocate for Health in the Russian Community: Gregori’s Story Hep C Story Dennis Rivera is a peer navigator at AIDS Center of Queens County (ACQC) and is a peer in the IDUHA Hep C Peer Navigation Program. For Dennis, peer navigation is about sharing hope and ed...

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...

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...

Fear and Stigma, No More! Hep C Peer Navigator Story of Ana Faro Ana Faro worked as a peer navigator for the AIDS Center of Queens County (ACQC) involved in the IDUHA Hep C Peer Navigation Program. She is passionate about making Hep C a priority and ensuring quality services...

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...