Items tagged 'girls'

Understanding your menstrual cycle with a bleeding disorder

Laura Bardell -
26 March 2025

Starting conversations about periods before menstruation begins can help to normalise and reduce the stigma and shame girls can feel about menstruating.

Women and girls advisory group

26 March 2025

The group advising HFA Council on issues for women and girls affected by bleeding disorders had its first meeting in February 2025.

World Haemophilia Day 2025

26 March 2025

World Haemophilia Day 2025 is a worldwide call to action to close the gaps in care for women and girls with bleeding disorders.

Growing up with VWD

18 December 2024

Cassie's personal story of growing up with von Willebrand disease (VWD) and learning to manage her heavy periods.

Growing up with VWD

Cassie -
11 December 2024

Cassie's personal story of growing up with von Willebrand disease (VWD) and learning to manage her heavy periods.

Parenting a teenager with a rare bleeding disorder

Elizabeth -
11 September 2024

Elizabeth shares her experiences of parenting her teenage daughter Grace who has Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a rare hereditary platelet function disorder.

Heavy menstrual bleeding in teenagers

Jaime Chase -
11 September 2024

When and how to seek help for adolescent girls with bleeding disorders when they have heavy periods.

Women and girls with bleeding disorders

Suzanne O'Callaghan -
26 June 2024

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.

Women: caregivers to patients to advocates

Lara Nicholson -
26 June 2024

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.

The challenges of living with VWD

Shauna -
11 December 2023

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

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Items tagged 'girls'

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