COMUNITÀ VIRTUALI ED EPATITE C. L’ESPERIENZA DELLA MALATTIA NEI SOGGETTI AFFETTI DA HCV.

Gathered around a virtual place such as a Forum, people affected by HCV are the cross-section of a society struggling with one of the most pressing human problems: Health. Around this litteral-vital node, individual and collective issues, medical and psychological components, economic and sociaological assessments intertwine. Recently, the situation has greatly evolved: new drugs are now approved and prescribed, while in the last few years they had just been in their testing process. Depending onthe priority access to treatments, the acquired better knowledge, the psychological and biological response of the individual, public financed therapies and the cautious scientific classification of the pathology have opened up to new scenarios. However, traditional methods are still largely widespread. The following sociological analysis will present the study of the current situation of HCV patients with some outlooks on the near future.