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Laura Kool

Media Release: Backing belief with better support for people with chronic fatigue

Read Emerge Australia’s media release OFFICIAL MARK BUTLER MP MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE MEDIA RELEASE BACKING BELIEF WITH BETTER SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE The Albanese Government has heard the calls for better support for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID and related conditions, with funding to develop new

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Laura Kool

The CEO Report | May 2024

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! As World ME Day is around the corner we are excited to provide information on what we have been up to since our last newsletter. Check out details on our theme Stop. Rest. Pace. and our 2024 campaign. On Thursday 9 May we

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Jennifer Bhadye

RACGP HANDI Guide: Exercise for ME/CFS

Emerge Australia shares the concerns of ME/CFS patients, carers, researchers and informed clinicians with the release of the updated RACGP HANDI Guide, “Incremental physical activity for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis”. In 2024, ME/CFS patients should not be subjected to harmful and outdated practices. In particular, we note that the updated HANDI guide:  Isn’t evidence-based. It

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Laura Kool

The CEO Report | April 2024

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! What a month it has been! As most of you already are aware, our Emerge Australia team, with the support of our loyal donors and the Open Medicine Foundation, held a Roundtable event at Parliament House on 27 March 2024. Shining a light

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Laura Kool

SBS News: ‘It’s a matter of urgency’: The push for more chronic fatigue support

Published: 25 March 2024 Almost a year after a parliamentary committee recommended more funding for ME/CFS support, advocates say the community’s suffering is “being compounded on all levels”. Emerge Australia has called on the federal government to unlock research and funding for those suffering from ME/CFS.The organisation recommends establishing a nationally coordinated research program into

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Laura Kool

Bringing ME/CFS and long COVID sectors together around Recommendation 8 

Media Release: 27 March 2024 Sick and Tired: Casting a long shadow long COVID Inquiry 2023   Recommendation 8: The Committee recommends funding be made available for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research and patient support and that this funding should be allocated in consultation with peak bodies for ME/CFS and with note of the recommendations

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Laura Kool

The CEO Report | March 2024

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! It’s been an unbelievably busy period in the last month and hard to believe that we are almost at Easter 2024! So much happening and so little time. Below you will read about our Round Table meeting at Parliament House in Canberra on

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Laura Kool

ABC Article: Scientists say there’s been a ‘revolution’ in understanding long COVID, but sufferers are still feeling left behind

Published: 16 March 2024 Miquette Abercrombie describes the COVID-19 infection that changed her life as “straightforward”, but what happened afterwards was anything but. Over the 700 days since her infection, which was in April 2022, she said she has experienced hundreds of different symptoms, from fatigue, brain fog, changes to her voice and heart issues.

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Laura Kool

ABC Article: Federal government’s response to long COVID inquiry a ‘missed opportunity’, experts and patients warn

Published: 20 February 2024 It’s been four years since Tim Stannard could smell or taste anything normally, thanks to what he originally thought was “a little flu”.  “It’s debilitating. It’s depressing. Over four years now, I’ve suffered daily symptoms,” he said. Months after returning to Australia, Mr Stannard said his symptoms were getting worse.  

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