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On August 29, friends of the Waterloo Pharmacy community came together to support student success at the Grey Silo Golf Club. This year’s tournament was the fifth annual Golf Invitational, an event which has raised over $150,000 towards this cause.

The year’s golf winners included:

Globally, Hepatitis C affects 130-150 million people. With antiviral medications, approximately 90% of those millions can be cured.

However, antiviral medications are costly, and even in developed countries many governments struggle with which medications should be subsidized and when. In Canadian patients suffering from Hepatitis C, a virus that causes liver disease and often worsens into a chronic condition, treatment can be expensive. Currently, Canadians with chronic HCV have limited access to Direct Anti-viral Agents (DAAs), the most effective existing treatment for the infection.

Approximately 88% of Canadian older adults struggle to comprehend medical information. Low health literacy is linked to poor health outcomes, a fact that is especially worrying given that elderly patients tend to suffer from chronic health conditions, like diabetes or high blood pressure.

By providing tools to improve health literacy, pharmacists can help patients better manage conditions and interpret vital information.