We built key relationships to protect Medicaid for ME and Long COVID. Now we need your help to keep going.

On May 12th, the ME/CFS and Long COVID community are gathering outside the Department of Health and Human Services to call on HHS policymakers to intervene before tens of thousands of people with the debilitating diseases of ME/CFS and Long COVID lose access to the healthcare they need to survive.

ME awareness month is here. Here's how to show up (at whatever battery level you have).

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Fury and hope can coexist. Here’s why we believe this is the year everything changes for people with ME.

We have a new research paper out, and it marks an important milestone in a collaboration that set out to improve care for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The paper is co-first-authored by Jaime Seltzer, Scientific Director at #MEAction, and Dr. Stephanie Grach, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic Rochester, and a clinician-researcher specializing in ME/CFS care.Through a small grant from the Society to Improve Diagnosis i

#MEAction and NIH Director to Discuss Funding for ME/CFS Research Roadmap

Our year-long campaign to protect Medicaid for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and Long COVID continues! We are pleased to share that our Advocacy Director, Ben HsuBorger, will be joining a national webinar to discuss how the H.R.1 funding bill passed by Congress last year (commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill) will affect disability communities. The Grassroots Project, which supports disability grassroots advocacy, networking, and leadership development,

#MEAction is fighting to protect your Medicaid access. We’re taking action in 42 states and at the federal level to ensure ME/CFS and Long COVID are recognized and protected.

We have NEWS to share about funding for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap - the NIH’s most comprehensive, strategic plan for ME/CFS research to-date.

This year’s Advocacy Week will focus on medical education.

#MEAction joined a Maryland bill hearing to support House Bill 27 (HB 27), a proposal that would create a Maryland Long COVID Research Fund and establish a Long COVID Innovation Grant and Loan Program through the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO).

It's so important that we recognize the struggle of being believed when seeking medical help. Black women are consistently less likely to have their pain taken seriously at appointments. ME/CFS is already difficult to get taken seriously or to receive a proper diagnosis. Being a Black woman even lessens the chances of being diagnosed.

Two caregivers share their insights from decades of caregiving for spouse, children, mother, teens and adult children with ME

Where we spend money reflects what we value. From ME research funding to Medicaid cuts, here’s why we’re speaking out, and how you can help.

We know how important this is for you.

Congress has directed NIH to develop an implementation plan for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap within 180 days — a major step forward in the fight for treatments, clinical trials, and funding.

Like you, we have been watching horrors unfold especially in Minnesota. We have been checking on our #MEAction Minnesota community and sending all our love and support. This situation is heartbreaking and sickening. We’ve heard your requests to find ways to help, so we’ve created a campaign with disability activist partners so you can contact congress, sign an open letter, and share on social media. We also highlight resources and groups on the ground that you can support. IC

I don’t need to tell you that these are extraordinarily difficult times. Across the country, we’re witnessing devastating cuts, acts of injustice, and widespread attacks on human rights. It’s overwhelming, it’s frightening—and yet, in moments like this, our purpose becomes even more clear. We are here to protect and uplift our community, especially those most vulnerable.Right now, unprecedented reductions in healthcare funding threaten millions of Americans, including people