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
07/ 8/09 by: Raquel Jose
The German hepatitis groups Deutsche Leberhilfe and Deutsche Leberstiftung were very active and productive in the lead up to World Hepatitis Day 2009.
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07/ 7/09 by: Raquel Jose
May 19th started with an organised walk to the Brussels Parliament to raise awareness and to lobby the government, followed by a press conference including medical experts and government health ministers.
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06/29/09 by: Raquel Jose
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Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations | Obama | The Hepatitis B Foundation | USA
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
06/11/09 by: Raquel Jose
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Bangladesh | hepatitis b | hepatitis c | Professor Mohammad Yunus
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
05/14/09 by: Raquel Jose
The Bulgarians managed to do something incredible this year - INCREDIBLE!
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05/11/09 by: Raquel Jose
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