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ME/CFS AUSTRALIA (SA) INC
Registered Charity 698
Mailing address:
GPO Box 383,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5001
Office:
266 Port Road,
Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
('834 MECFS')
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Ph: (08) 8346 3237
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FIBROMYALGIA HELP: Contact Fibromyalgia SA at the Arthritis Foundation of SA 118 Richmond Road, Marleston 5033 Ph: (08) 8379 5711 |
ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.
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Australian funding for ME/CFS
Friday 6 November 2009
Paul Leverenz, chairman of the ME/CFS Association of Australia, has written about the state of national funding for ME/CFS:
Readers will be interested to know that the Australian Government through its National Health and Medical Research Council funds CFS research to a value of approximately $1.17* per patient per annum. That's about one (decent) cup of coffee for every three patients. This can be compared to approximately $400 spent per HIV patient per annum.
Read a little more about the funding situation in our new blog entry "ME/CFS Research Funding Needs Boost".
(Already the privately funded Mason Foundation awards grants to ME/CFS research far in excess of the Government.)
It is interesting to note that if even if one in ten patients donated $10 to research, we'd match Government research spending. Let's put them to shame.
* Based on information provided on the NHMRC website and assuming 100,000 people with ME/CFS.
ME/CFS Australia's blog can be found here.
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