Walk on Washington 1998

This video shows clips from the Hepatitis Foundation's 1998 hepatitis conference in Washington D.C. which included the NHCC's first national hepatitis awareness rally ever held in the United States. Our rally was coordinated with HFI's annual conference that year at their request. (At the time the NHCC was called the "Nashville Hepatitis C Coalition" - the name change came later.)

The NHCC had originally planned to hold the first national rally for hepatitis C  independently in 1998, but when HFI learned of this they asked us to hold our event together with their yearly conference "so as not to conflict with each other's events". 

It had been our intention to call the rally "WAKE UP WASHINGTON" ever since the beginning of planning in late 1997, but HFI chose to "tone down" the name we'd picked and instead chose to call the mutual 1998 event "Walk on Washington".  Rather than make an issue of it we simply returned to using our own "WAKE UP WASHINGTON" name for every rally we've held since. 

It should be noted here that although the NHCC was at one time a supporter of HFI and had worked closely with them prior to this event, due to progressing differences in motivations and perceptions of what is truly in the the best interest of hepatitis patients, this was the first and last event the NHCC held in conjunction with any of HFI's activities. 

Two more national rallies for hepatitis C have been held by the NHCC since 1998, and both were hosted solely by the NHCC along with patients and families all over America. 

No longer is the NHCC in any way affiliated with HFI nor have we supported any of  their activities since 1998.  

Please click here or on the the picture below to see videos from the
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College website.
These videos were shot during the Washington D.C. weekend of our first national rally and feature short video interviews of individuals in whose lives have been affected by hepatitis C. Included here is a two-part interview with Kev Krueger, one of the co-founders of the NHCC. Please click here or on the picture below to access the videos:

Dr. C. Everett Koop and Kev - 1998

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