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:
Blogging together is an opportunity for bloggers, vloggers, and photo-bloggers to support the 'Am I Number 12?' campaign. Add a badge and show your support for the 500 million people living with hepatitis B and C today.
Alternatively if you want to make your own badge, send it to us and we will include it in our gallery of badges: worldhepday@fleishman.com
06/30/09 by: Raquel Jose
As you know World Hepatitis Day 2009 is marked around the world by hundreds of patient groups and individuals and the World Hepatitis Alliance was also grateful to receive Egypt participation this year! ... read more
06/29/09 by: Raquel Jose
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Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations | Obama | The Hepatitis B Foundation | USA
06/26/09 by: Raquel Jose
Wow, I just heard from Algeria and I have some very exciting news to share with you:
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06/25/09 by: Raquel Jose
The collaboration between a large number of organisations and the Public Health Agency of Canada resulted in a number of impressive events for World Hepatitis Day. Yep, go Canada, go!
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Canada | canadian AIDS treatment information exchange | canadian ethnocultural council | canadian hemophilia society | Canadian Liver foundation | Canadian Society for International Health | Hepatitis | Public Health Agency of Canada
06/24/09 by: Raquel Jose
Bosnia Herzegovina also participated in World Hepatitis Day this year with many activities held throughout May.
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Bosnia | Chronic Viral Heptatitis Patients Association | hepatitis b | hepatitis c
06/23/09 by: Raquel Jose
I have just received news from Taiwan and I couldn't be happier with what I read! Even though the groups had little time to organise activities for World Hepatitis Day (they only found out about it in February when I visited them), May 19th was marked by many interesting events, ranging from press conferences and free screenings to talks at schools and even a lotto draw!
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06/19/09 by: Raquel Jose
Hi guys, sorry I haven't posted anything for a week or so but believe it or not, there's still a lot of work to be done (such as liaising with patient groups, producing a WHD 09 wrap up report, thanking the campaign supporters, starting to plan World Hepatitis Day 2010, organising a board meeting - which involves more than setting up an agenda and flying board directors in - etc, etc, etc).
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06/11/09 by: Raquel Jose
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Bangladesh | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Professor Mohammad Yunus
06/ 8/09 by: Raquel Jose
This year SOS Hepatites Portugal http://www.soshepatites.org.pt/ put together a really interesting and yet shocking campaign for World Hepatitis Day.
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06/ 4/09 by: Raquel Jose
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hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Nigeria | World Hepatitis Alliance | World Hepatitis Day
06/ 3/09 by: Raquel Jose
Hi Everyone,
First of all, a big well-done to all of the patient groups, doctors, nurses and volunteers who helped make World Hepatitis Day 2009 a big success.
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Brazil | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | rio de janeiro | sao paulo | World hepattis day
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