The Greenview Foundation's Hepatitis C Research Fund is a charity raising money for medical research at the University of Michigan and to improve the diagnosis and education of Hepatitis C patients worldwide.

Hepatitis C is a serious, often chronic and potentially fatal disease that afflicts approximately 4-5 million Americans and is the #1 reason for liver transplants. The yearly death rate in the U.S. is estimated to be 8,000 - 12,000. Many of these Americans are health care workers that were exposed to infected patients. Many others are unfortunate people that received blood transfusions as medical patients in the 1980's before hepatitis C was detectable. Worldwide, more than 170 million people are estimated to have hepatitis C, most without yet knowing it.

Despite the vast number of people with hepatitis C, the seriousness of the disease and the alarming number of deaths, research for a cure or better treatment receives very little funding. Our mission is to save lives by raising awareness of hepatitis C and existing treatment options, providing seed money for research grants, and, in a very modest way, directly raise money for research.

With the University of Michigan hospitals located just a few miles away and well known as a top-20 medical research center, money raised by this fund will be donated to the University, earmarked for research and education on hepatitis C.

The first goal of the Hepatitis C Research Fund was realized in 2007 when it donated $10,000 to the University of Michigan Hospitals, enough to seed one research project. An additional $20,000 was raised in 2008. The preliminary research, to be published soon, documents that many patients are skipping available treatments due to inaccurate effectiveness estimates, resulting in unnecessary deaths.

The goal for 2009-2010 is to raise $100,000 for the specific project of creating an on-line system, available worldwide to patients and doctors, to estimate treatment effectiveness based on a patient's medical and lifestyle parameters. With better information, many lives can be saved, even with existing treatment options.

Inquiries should be sent by email to Debbie Green at

The Greenview Foundation welcomes all cash donations, large and small. Please visit Support Us for instructions.

If you have any personal stories that you want to anonymously share with us for our new page, please send them to the above email. These will be incorporated in the website after a few have been collected.