Hon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Associate Minister of Health): Last week, I released the National Hepatitis C Action Plan, which sets out how New Zealand can eliminate this very serious disease by 2030. Hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver transplants in New Zealand and the second leading cause of liver cancer, but it is preventable and curable. The action plan will boost awareness and increase testing so that more people can get access to the latest treatment, Maviret, which can potentially cure 98 percent of people with chronic hepatitis C.