Items tagged 'girls'

Elizabeth shares her experiences of parenting her teenage daughter Grace who has Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a rare hereditary platelet function disorder.
When and how to seek help for adolescent girls with bleeding disorders when they have heavy periods.
Sessions on women and girls at the WFH 2024 World Congress had a strong message that it’s time for action on female-specific research, treatment and care.
This session discussed the work of women advocates to overcome the general and longstanding misunderstanding that women are only carriers and do not have bleeding disorders.

Shauna’s story Shauna shared her personal story of managing quality of life issues while living with Type 3 VWD at…

Plenary – Women and girls with bleeding disordersChair ~ Dr Meredith WigginsPersonal perspectives on the challenges and issues of living…

Shauna Adams is HFACT Secretary and an Australian community member with VWD. Suzanne O'Callaghan is HFA Policy Research and Education…

ROBYN SHOEMARK Robyn Shoemark is Clinical Nurse Consultant Haemophilia/Haematology at the Kids Factor Zone, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney,…

Haemophilia Foundation Australia has published a new education resource, Haemophilia testing in women and girls: your questions answered. It’s a…

SUZANNE O’CALLAGHAN Suzanne O’Callaghan is HFA Policy Research and Education Manager In August 2021 HFA undertook an evaluation survey of…

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