I’ve got exciting news to share! In early 2024, #MEAction will launch a new grassroots, peer-run program in the United States to help people with ME, Long COVID, and other infection-associated chronic illnesses find and access local services and support for people with disabilities. This will be an innovative and radical program that is run
I’ve been involved in planning many #MillionsMissing actions during my time with #MEAction, but for me, protesting at the Washington Monument this past May 12th was a different—even surreal—experience. The installation of cots was so large that I could see people coming across the mall to see what it was. I would tell them that
DEA should amend its proposed rule to ensure access to care
Long COVID Exercise study must address safety, efficacy concerns.
Calls for immediate public release of RECOVER’s clinical trial design
Reflections from the World AIDS Day White House Protest
AIDS, ME/CFS & Long COVID activists demand Biden, Congress fund pandemic plans
White House Must Confront Global Health Nightmare of Colliding Pandemics
Congress launched ARPA-H (the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) this past March to focus on high-risk, high-reward research projects with the goal to solve intractable health problems. As ARPA-H is in the process of hiring its first cohort of program managers, #MEAction and a coalition of chronic disease advocacy groups have published an open
BOLD ACTION to me, means mobilizing our community to publicly demonstrate our deep and intense—as opposed to shallow and passive—commitment to seeing healthcare justice for people with ME. It is about bringing our issues to the forefront of public consciousness and putting strong pressure on our leaders to act. Taking BOLD ACTION is both a
