A big ray of hope in Poland!
07/ 2/09 by: Raquel Jose
In Poland, the 'Star of Hope' Foundation organised a successful World Hepatitis Day with various events planned throughout May.
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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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Entries tagged with: Poland
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No simple answers but a lot of hard work
04/22/09 by: Raquel Jose
Today I left snowy Warsaw in the early morning and took a train to Krakow to meet Marek Zygadlo, director of Monar. The train journey was quite fun(not!); 3 hours of squinting to catch-up with emails on the Blackberry plus I had some people trying to speak Polish with me but with my Polish being as good as my Chinese, any conversation pretty much ended in 25 seconds. At least I managed to buy a cup of coffee (never mind the fact that it took me 10 minutes to order one and that I actually asked for tea in the first place but hey, it was freezing cold and I got a hot beverage...)
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Sharing Experience in Poland
04/20/09 by: Raquel Jose
Finally, the plane lands, I am safe and I head to the start of the two-day conference I mentioned in my last post.
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Turbulent Times
04/17/09 by: Raquel Jose
Ok, here I am again - on a flight to Warsaw this time, just days after returning to London. As some of you may have realised by now, I really don't like flying. I used to be fine with it but now, the more I do it, the more scared I become - yes sad, but true.
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