From Regional Patient Advocate Javier Santana In Central America and the Caribbean, every day, there are more doctors interested in learning about Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) and how to help patients in their respective countries. New doctors in El Salvador and Costa Rica have been in communication with HAEi and me to find a way [...]
From Regional Patient Advocate Javier Santana A group has been formed to prepare an HAE conference. There have been conversations with me as well as with government officials and representatives of the medical school in Santo Domingo to coordinate the event.
From Regional Patient Advocate Javier Santana The patient group in Puerto Rico has held its annual conference where HAE specialist doctors had the opportunity to talk about topics like new treatments, research, and COVID-19 vs. HAE. As a representative of HAEi, I gave a presentation on advocacy and the process of getting HAE medicines [...]
From Regional Patient Advocate Javier Santana In April, a follow-up was given to the survey that HAEi designed for my region in Spanish. The survey will help gather important information on the current situation related to HAE. All group leaders from the countries of the region participated in the survey. Chile held a virtual [...]
From Regional Patient Advocate Javier Santana In my region, there is still a shortage of medicines and treatments despite the efforts made by patient groups. In countries like Costa Rica, where in 2017 only about 18 patients had been identified, today about 80 people with HAE have been registered according to reports from allergy [...]
From Regional Patient Advocate Javier Santana Thanks to the cooperation with the consulting doctors of the patient groups in the Central American region, new doctors from Honduras and Nicaragua have been contacted. In both countries, patients with HAE have been identified, and the necessary efforts are being made to help them understand the disease, [...]
For several months, HAE patients in Costa Rica have conducted interviews with the media to denounce the situation they are experiencing as the Government has not heard their claims. Several patients have been hospitalized with severe HAE attacks, one has been intubated to save his life, and according to HAE Costa Rica, three patients [...]
The biannual HAE Global Conference has been an excellent opportunity for people with HAE to meet, exchange experiences, and learn from each other over the years. Following the 2018 HAE Global Conference in Vienna, Austria, organizing a workshop for fellow Latin American patients was a must. Originally the plan was to hold the first-ever [...]
During the past months, groups of people with HAE in the Central American and Caribbean region have been quite active in seeking the support of citizens and the attention of government entities to achieve access to treatments for HAE. Countries such as Panama and Costa Rica have held meetings with important government officials to [...]
I participated in an interview with Dr. Olga Barrera in Panama for a national newspaper to highlight HAE patients’ situation in the country. In Puerto Rico, I have had several communications with Dr. Rafael Zaragoza, representatives of pharmaceutical companies, lawmakers, and legislative advisers about the reconsideration of the law that would give HAE patients [...]
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