Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights) May 12, 2019 #1 Gender Gap: Today is the International Awareness Day for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). ME affects 15 to 30 million around the world, and currently more women than men are diagnosed with the syndrome. However, much remains unknown about the disease, leaving #MillionsMissing. Take a look below. Click to expand... Government programs like the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have policies based on outdated research claiming that people with ME/CFS get better with the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Graduated Exercise Therapy. The research for these treatments has been thoroughly disproved and it has been shown how Graded Exercise Therapy in fact makes patients worse. Yet, patients are still being rejected from the NDIS either because they haven’t ‘exhausted all known treatment options’ or because their condition is not considered ‘permanent’, two criteria used for determining eligibility. Click to expand... full blog here http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/millionsmissing-gender-bias-adds-to-the-burden-of-disease/
Gender Gap: Today is the International Awareness Day for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). ME affects 15 to 30 million around the world, and currently more women than men are diagnosed with the syndrome. However, much remains unknown about the disease, leaving #MillionsMissing. Take a look below. Click to expand... Government programs like the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have policies based on outdated research claiming that people with ME/CFS get better with the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Graduated Exercise Therapy. The research for these treatments has been thoroughly disproved and it has been shown how Graded Exercise Therapy in fact makes patients worse. Yet, patients are still being rejected from the NDIS either because they haven’t ‘exhausted all known treatment options’ or because their condition is not considered ‘permanent’, two criteria used for determining eligibility. Click to expand... full blog here http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/millionsmissing-gender-bias-adds-to-the-burden-of-disease/
