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  • The U.K.’s plan for ME has failed us. Members of parliament must step up.

    The U.K.’s plan for ME has failed us. Members of parliament must step up.

    Nick Benton

    No ring-fenced research funding. No care pathway for the very severe. Hospitalized patients still at risk of malnutrition. What has the delivery plan really changed for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis in the United Kingdom? Read more…

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  • At the front, a row of protestors in wheelchairs display signs in support of Palestinian liberation. Essay author Jenna Bitar is second from left. Comrades are supporting the wheelchair users, and other members of the march are visible behind them, as well as businesses and homes of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
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    Instead of supporting people with Long COVID, our government funds a genocide

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    Immune system damage from COVID-19 is different from HIV/AIDS — but the advocacy has parallels

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    My Mom was disabled by ME, but I didn’t understand until I developed Long COVID. I wrote an apology letter to her.

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