Editor’s note: Karina Hansen is young Danish woman with severe ME. In February 2013, she was forcibly removed from her home by police and taken to a facility for functional (i.e,. psychosomatic) illnesses. The ME Alliance is organizing an action for Karina’s third birthday away from home. You can help Karina by sending cards and gifts
We’d love to start hosting periodic calls to allow #MEAction members to chat informally with co-founders Jen Brea and Beth Mazur – to ask big picture questions about the platform, brainstorm strategy, and offer suggestions for future directions. As we use Google Hangout for these calls, they are strictly limited to eight participants in addition
Maka a video about ME and make a fuss! (Australia)
The Open Medicine Foundation has just begun a fundraising campaign to raise $8.3K in donations and have it matched 3:1, which will result in $25K + $8.3 = $33.3K!
In the US? Find your state and sign the petition. Not in the US? Sign the global solidarity petition. Share your story, tell congress why we need Mylagic Encephalomyelitis Funding Equality.
I’m working with a national M.E. charity, Action for M.E., as their Volunteer Pharmacist, providing information about pharmacy services, writing health and pharmacy-related articles, and putting together a resource for pharmacy professionals about M.E. I’m gathering thoughts and suggestions from both people with M.E. and pharmacy professionals because it’s important that the resource includes a full picture of M.E.
Vote DAILY between October 6-23, 2015 in the Aviva contest to help the National ME/FM Action Network in Canada win up to $100,000 for research of ME and FM.
Bob and Courtney Miller are writing a letter to Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Sylvia Burwell, US Secretary of Health asking that the NIH: Assign ME/CFS to a strong, well-funded Institute like NINDS, to enable strategic planning and structural accountability. Fund a mix of intramural and extramural research (as NIH does for
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative has launched a campaign to help increase awareness of —and ultimately research funding for—ME/CFS. The campaign, “Humans of ME/CFS,” is a takeoff of the popular “Humans of New York” photoblog and Facebook page. The aim of the campaign is to show the faces and stories of those suffering from ME/CFS worldwide
We invite you to join the expanding international community of supporters aiming to raise £1000,000 for Invest in ME Charity’s Biomedical Research Funds by May 2016.
