My name is Din Savorn.

I'm 50 years old.

Din is one of the first people to receive a new, more effective pill-only treatment for hepatitis C.

It is being offered free of charge by the MSF clinic in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh.

This morning Din went to get the result of a blood test after having completed the treatment course.

I felt nervous...

but also happy.

After getting the results, the doctor gave me the all clear.

I'm happy I'll be able to live longer.

Before the treatment

I felt hopeless.

I knew I had the disease since 1999,

but because I couldn't afford the treatment,

I lived in fear. I didn't know when I was going to die.

Before receiving treatment at the MSF clinic Din had tried three different treatments Including traditional medicine.

Din and his wife had to take on extra work to pay for the medicines but they only made him more sick.

It was poisoning me. The side effects were life-threatening.

I nearly died.

I heard about people getting treatment in Singapore and Vietnam.

I wanted to get treated, but I couldn't afford it.

I would have to sell my house to get treated.

Then my children would have no shelter.

So I just waited.

Then at least I would be leaving the house to my kids if I died.

I would like to appeal to the pharmaceutical corporations...

Please produce more medicines.

And make them available at a reasonable price.

So that my fellow Khmer citizens can afford them.

MSF has been working to knock down the price of new hepatitis C medicines.

As a result it now costs MSF US$120 to treat someone with hepatitis C in some of the countries where we work,

That's more than 1000 times less than the original launch price.

The reduced price means we are able to put more people in our projects on treatment.

Much more needs to happen so everyone living with hepatitis C gets the medicines they need.

Find out how we're changing that: Msfaccess.org.

With thanks to the MSF team and patients in MSF's Phnom Penh hepatitis C project.