hepatitis c affects 170 million people around the world which includes 1.4 million people living in the u.s. most of the people infected with this virus live in third-world countries which often tend to have poor sterilization of medical equipment, a common source of hcv infection. education also plays a big part as a vast majority of people don’t have access to the information about the virus, how it spreads and infects11. hepatitis c can enter human body through many ways which include sexual intercourse, blood transfusion and via hcv infected needles. hcv infection can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer if interferon treatment fails.