Just Do It
03/31/09 by: Raquel Jose
No, this is not a new Nike advert, it's about vaccination programmes!
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A Journey of Discovery in Hepatitis B and C
About My Journey
My name is Raquel and over the next 12 months I will be travelling around the world on behalf of the World Hepatitis Alliance. As part of my tour, I will be meeting with patients, medical associations, patient groups and politicians to gain a better understanding of how countries are tackling hepatitis B and C and to share best practice from other countries...
Who am I? Well, 3½ years ago I knocked on a charity's door in London to ask if I could interview some people for my masters thesis on hepatitis. Since then I have turned a personal interest into my daily working life and have never left the hepatitis field. I have always been passionate about hepatitis – I lost someone I loved dearly to hepatitis C when I was 15 and have seen many other people needlessly suffer from hepatitis C and B through my charity work in this field.
Knowing that treatments for hepatitis C can be very effective if patients are diagnosed early and that there is a vaccine to prevent hepatitis B motivates me to continue raising awareness of these diseases which collectively affect 500 million people in the world and take 1.5 million lives a year.
I hope my journey helps bring change for the hepatitis community and that people benefit from it as a consequence. Welcome to my blog: keep up to date with my journey here!
Where will I be visiting?
On behalf of the World Hepatitis Alliance, I will be visiting the following countries to learn about how governments, patient advocacy groups and the medical community are tackling chronic hepatitis B and C:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan)
- Ghana
- Poland
- New Zealand
- Scotland
- USA
- Vietnam
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March 2009 Archives
Hepatitis in Taiwan - the good and the bad
03/27/09 by: Raquel Jose
After being seen by six, yes, six check-in assistants at Beijing's International Airport (which made me think that not many Brazilians go to Taiwan - I mean, people were very intrigued with my passport - or I was somehow looking very suspicious that day?!), I made it through the boarding gates and arrived in wonderful Taipei.
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hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Taipei | Taiwan | vaccination programme
Goodbye Beijing and thank you
03/24/09 by: Raquel Jose
As you can see from my previous posts on China my visit here has been eye opening - I hope reading the blog has been as educational to you as it has been to me...
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APASL | Beijing | Centre for Disease Control | China | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Youan Hospital
Counting in China
03/23/09 by: Raquel Jose
I just came back from a very interesting meeting with the China Centre for Disease Control (CDC) http://www.chinacdc.net.cn/n272562/, where I was shown their National Infectious Diseases reporting database.
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Let's get creative
03/20/09 by: Raquel Jose
We have just one month to go until the closing date for our creative competition! You can find full entry details, judging criteria, competition rules and nomination forms on our website www.aminumber12.org/Competition.aspx.
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am I Number 12 | creative competition | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | World Hepatitis Day
Getting to grips with Traditional Chinese Medicine
03/18/09 by: Raquel Jose
Ok, this is a very, very interesting subject people!
Warning: If you are Chinese you might find the content of this post a bit dull and rather obvious so please excuse my western interest!
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China | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Traditional Chinese Medicine
Hello China!
03/16/09 by: Raquel Jose
I arrived in Beijing on their first day of winter (it's snowing!) - after that never ending plane ascent to the skies, we finally stabilised and landed OK!
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Beijing | China | Hepatitis | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | World Hepatitis Alliance | World Hepatitis Day
Enlightening Times
03/ 9/09 by: Raquel Jose
Now, in my last post I was talking about the current hepatitis B and hepatitis C situation in Hong Kong and I must say my visit was really enlightening; it was a completely different experience to the one in Brazil and Argentina, as well as Europe where the biggest problem is often hepatitis C. It was interesting (and at the same time worrying) to witness first-hand the scale of the hepatitis B problem in Hong Kong.
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Argentina | Beijing | brazil | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Hong Kong
Hepatitis in Hong Kong
03/ 6/09 by: Raquel Jose
Well - after spending a few short nights at home (enough time to do the washing) - I was back on another 11 hour flight, this time heading for Hong Kong. Hong Kong was chosen to host this year's Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) congress. The place was buzzing with doctors, professors, clinicians, students and various other representatives of patient groups and the pharmaceutical industry so I had a great opportunity to learn about the hepatitis B and hepatitis C landscape here.
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APASL | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Hong Kong
A big thank you
03/ 5/09 by: Raquel Jose
I just would like to say thank you to the patient groups and doctors I met during my trip to Brazil and Argentina; for the time they spent with me and for sharing their knowledge and experiences with me.
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WHO said what?
03/ 4/09 by: Raquel Jose
I arrived back in London happy that my luggage arrived safely (yay!), but sad because I was already homesick, cold as I went from 38C to 1C in less than 13 hours, tired because I didn't get any sleep on the flight and excited for being back in my second home.
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Beijing | Brazil | Executive Board | London | world health assembly | world health organization
Football and hepatitis: what a match!
03/ 3/09 by: Raquel Jose
Now, I promised I wasn't going to mention football earlier - and I didn't - but this is post seven and that's totally different so let me tell you something really interesting I learned in my visit to Brazil and Argentina...
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Argentina | brazil | football | hepatitis c
Room for improvement in hepatitis C treatment
03/ 2/09 by: Raquel Jose
I really don't want to seem picky. I mean, I truly love Argentina (it's a wonderful, beautiful country with wonderful, beautiful - actually, very beautiful - people) but there are more problems I need to report here regarding hepatitis C treatment.
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