My hunch is that the above poster is fishing for folk remedies.
Actually, Hepatitic C virus infection is at least four times more prevalent that HIV, however, the problem is that it targets the liver and can cause acute or chronic liver disease including cirrhosis and liver cancer. The issue is how to protect the liver and reduce the viral load. There're folk remedies, one uses a plant related to the 'malla haitiana' hedge of a previous poster, the milk or sap a thistle... Before I hired him, my hut caretaker in Azua, Rafo, was stricken with an acute bout of hepatitis, and he was cured by a remedy prepared by a folk healer in San Cristobal...