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Welcome to HarborPath's inaugural newsletter! Every quarter of 2016 we will share exciting updates about ever-increasing opportunities to offer more access to medications for uninsured people living with life-threatening conditions. |
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In This Issue: - A Few Words from HarborPath's President
- New Look for the HarborPath Website
- A New Home Base for HarborPath in North Carolina
- Mission-Focused: Expanding into hepatitis C
A Few Words from Our President HarborPath has seen tremendous growth since our auspicious beginnings in 2012 providing HIV medications (antiretroviral therapy or ART) to low-income, uninsured people through our portal program. I have never been more proud or experienced more of a sense of purpose serving in an organization than I have over the past three years. Health is such a fundamental aspect of a person’s life and affects every part of it. Truly, it has been an honor to have now helped dispense over 10,000 prescriptions to people whose health has benefitted measurably. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, as they say. HarborPath moves into the uncharted territory of a new disease state on March 1st, 2016 with the launch of our hepatitis C program. Seeking to meet the very significant medication needs of uninsured people diagnosed with hepatitis C, we have partnered with Merck to offer Zepatier, a new hepatitis C medication, initially as a pilot program through our portal. Amid much excitement about the new program, I would like to take a moment to personally thank our medical partners, funding supporters and board of directors who allow our work to grow, as well as our pharmaceutical partners whose donated medications are changing lives through the portal. Your efforts are what make the difference, and you are invaluable to us at HarborPath. Enjoy the first issue of the HarborPath Helps Newsletter, and please let us know how we can serve you. Ken Trogdon President ken.trogdon@harborpath.org |
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A New Look for the HarborPath Website If you have visited our website recently at harborpath.org you may have questioned where you landed! Our wonderful partners at sambrown.com created the new website and gave us a whole new look, complete with easy navigation and updated content. Have a look around and spread the word! The HarborPath Team | | |
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Coming Soon... A New Home Base for HarborPath Throughout HarborPath’s three-year history, many effective partnerships have been formed and none with more potential impact on the uninsured than those based in North Carolina. Considering this, the next logical step was to move our operations to Charlotte, NC. Known as an epicenter of technology, this city positions HarborPath as a technology-based non-profit surrounded by its target patient population. Although North Carolina has multiple cities where cutting-edge technology companies are based, much of the state remains rural and bears the burden of a large uninsured population. Charlotte, NC is also proximal to several of HarborPath's partnering clinics and institutions, including East Carolina University and UNC at Chapel Hill, as well as being ‘right up the road’ from several of HarborPath's board members. These are a few reasons among many why Charlotte, NC will become home base for HarborPath in April, 2016. |
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Mission-Focused: Expanding into hepatitis C Hepatitis C is known as the ‘silent killer’, with symptoms often not appearing for up to 20 years after initial infection. Recently, organizations such as the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) have shed light on hepatitis C and the devastating consequences of this virus, which over time can lead to liver cancer, the need for liver transplant, and even death. Fortunately, new medications are available to not only treat but effectively cure the disease. Through HarborPath’s partnership with Merck, the portal will be offering Zepatier to uninsured people diagnosed with hepatitis C. | | |
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