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
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.
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
Independent organisation Patient Opinion wants to hear feedback on healthcare services from patients in Australia, Ireland and the UK.
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.
We’re proud to announce that our new partnership with Tugg is now LIVE! Tugg is a “theatrical-on-demand” platform that gives documentary fanbases like ours access to 90% of the movie theaters in the United States. Tugg helps you book a movie theater near your home, advertise, sell tickets, and stage a high-caliber screening to build
#MEAction recently launched as an online platform to help anyone become an advocate. Now we are announcing our own advocacy action: A quick-strike lobbying campaign this August to spur the US Congress to vastly increase research funding for ME/CFS at the National Institutes of Health. We launched this effort to capitalize on the 21st Century
Write “M.E.” on your left hand or forearm (if you do not want to use marker on your skin, you can improvise with a piece of paper as many have done). Cover your mouth with your hand and make sure to look into your camera lens. Upload to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtags: #sufferingthesilence #MEAction and #severeme. If you are on Facebook, you will need to post to The #MEAction Network page AND use the hashtags above.
The US funding equality petition has over 4,000 signatures. We still have a lot of work to do to get to our goal of 50,000 signatures nationwide. As we learned from the Dutch campaign, the only way to get to get large numbers is to take the petition into the streets. Help us increase signatures for
