Tag Archives: World Health Organisation
Call for WHO to recognise energy limiting disabilities
World ME Alliance highlights energy limiting disabilities As a founding member of the World ME Alliance WAMES joins ME organisations round the world in calling for better understanding in the WHO of the challenges people with ME and long … Continue reading
World ME Alliance asks WHO to recognise ME
World ME Alliance calls on WHO Director General to recognise ME alongside Long Covid On Wednesday 12th October Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, wrote an op-ed in the Guardian. In it, he lays clear … Continue reading
Announcing the first ever World ME day – May 12th 2022
#WorldMEday 2022 The World ME Alliance, a collaborative of national organisations from across the globe, is launching World ME Day on 12th May this year. All organisations everywhere are invited to join this effort to raise awareness and campaign … Continue reading
World ME Alliance writes to WHO re long COVID definition
Will the World Health Organization’s long COVID definition help or hinder? WAMES has joined other members of the World ME Alliance in writing to the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning their recently published definition of “post COVID-19 condition”, commonly … Continue reading
ME & CFS – no longer classified as ‘Bodily Distress Disorder’ (BDD)
ME & CFS – no longer classified as a ‘Bodily Distress Disorder’ (BDD) by the WHO The World Health Organisation (WHO) have finally accepted that Postviral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) (8E49), Chronic fatigue syndrome (8E49), and Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis (8E49) are … Continue reading
Biotransformation profiles from a cohort of chronic fatigue women in response to a hepatic detoxification challenge
Biotransformation profiles from a cohort of chronic fatigue women in response to a hepatic detoxification challenge, by Elardus Erasmus, Francois E Steffens, Mari van Reenen, B Chris Vorster, Carolus J Reinecke in PLoS ONE 14 (5) May 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216298] … Continue reading
IAFME sends an ‘agenda for change’ for ME to the WHO
IAFME contacts the WHO about ME The International Alliance for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IAFME) has produced a trans-national consensus document covering Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.). Recognition, research and respect: An agenda for change in M.E. has the support of over 60 clinicians, researchers, … Continue reading
WAMES supports proposal to continue classifying ME as neurological
WAMES supports proposal to classify ME as neurological WAMES has submitted our comment on a proposal for the revision of the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD): The Welsh Association of ME & CFS Support (WAMES) supports the proposal … Continue reading
Help secure the World Health Organisation’s classification of ME & CFS
ME action blog post: Help secure the World Health Organisation’s classification of ME & CFS Important call to action! We need all hands on deck for a simple, but important task. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is reviewing its International … Continue reading
Bodily distress syndrome – the latest ‘term’ for CFS, FM, IBS etc.
Mail online article, by Roger Dobson, 20 March 2017: Why doctors can no longer dismiss symptoms as ‘all in the mind’: Experts reveal medically unexplained conditions can still have a physical cause In as many one fifth of cases, doctors … Continue reading
