"Hep C is primarily spread by sexual contact just as AIDS is"
That is not true. It is mainly due to blood transfusions, needle sticks, mother child transmissions and IV drug use. Sexual contact has a low incidence of infection.
There are millions of people out there that have hep c and don't know it. Many contracted it through blood transfusions before testing of the blood was common. (1992)The symptoms take years to appear. My husband got it from a blood transfusion. He was a firefighter who was injured during a rescue. He even received blood from the FD bloodbank, not the public one. It is not an STD, and I don't know why you say that it is.
From the CDC
"Estimated 4.1 million (1.6%) Americans have been infected with HCV, of whom 3.2 million are chronically infected."
If the HIV research is beneficial for treatment of Hep C, I believe it makes sense to spend money on it.
I stand corrected. But I do have a question - what was the incidence of Hep C 20 to 30 years ago compared to current infection rate? Or better yet, what was the rate before "gay rights" made bath houses and promiscuity culturally acceptable?
When I was young I never heard of Hep C, and I wasn't the most well behaved on the block.