Pioneering plan to help save hundreds of lives
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus that predominantly infects the cells of the liver.
If left untreated, it can cause cirrhosis, liver cancer and death.
There is no vaccine. Some estimates put the number of cases as high as 466,000. Pakistan has some of the highest rates of hepatitis C in the world.
Rates as high as 1 in 20, 10 times the estimated national average, have been found in some British Pakistani communities.