After years of injecting heroin, Fiona decided to turn her life around for the sake of her young daughter. She started a new life in the country, conquered her addiction and assumed she'd put all the dangers of drug abuse behind her.
But after 10 drug free years her past came back to haunt her: she discovered that the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus had been lying dormant in her body for over a decade. Now she has to live with the knowledge that the virus could attack her liver and eventually kill her. She's a victim of what doctors have dubbed "the silent epidemic".
New cases of hepatitis C, which can be undetected for up to 25 years, are now more common than HIV. And it's not just drug users who are at risk. Fiona and Hepatitis C counsellor Carol Clayton talk to Jenni.
