Items tagged 'Women'

Women and peer support

Lauren Green -
19 March 2024

How do you encourage women to take some time out to focus on their own needs? Lauren talks about peer support activities for women at Haemophilia Foundation Queensland.

Living with Glanzmann thrombasthenia

28 February 2024

Allison is in her mid-40s and was diagnosed with Glanzmann thrombasthenia at birth. She talked to HFA about her experiences and what she has learned from living with this very rare bleeding disorder.

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…

Women and girls with bleeding disorders

Suzanne O'Callaghan and Alex Klever -
11 December 2023

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

Susie – living with type 1 von Willebrand disorder

19 July 2023

I keep learning new things in my journey with a bleeding disorder and I’ve come to the opinion that this…

Haemophilia – when your daughters bleed too

19 July 2023

Glen and Jan, parents of two daughters who carry the gene alteration causing haemophilia and have bleeding symptoms, talked to…

Haemophilia – do you catch it?

19 July 2023

An Australian bleeding disorders community member tells her personal story. I have lived my whole life surrounded by haemophilia. My…

Susie ~ Disclosure and telling others

19 July 2023

Susie is an Australian community member. She has von Willebrand disorder (VWD) type 1 and her child has VWD type…

Sharron – A woman with haemophilia, carrier, mother of a son with haemophilia, dad has haemophilia

19 July 2023

Sharron’s father Glenn has haemophilia, so she has always known and lived with haemophilia. When she was a child it…

Jane’s story – genetic testing for haemophilia

19 July 2023

One of the main reasons women choose to have genetic testing for the altered gene for haemophilia is to find…

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Items tagged 'Women'

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