What is access to medical care like in your country?

What is access to medical care like in your country?

Tony Holland, IPWSO President, writes about Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and his personal experience in the UK: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of having access to medical care that is affordable. This is particularly important for people with...
Growing a global ‘Rare Diseases’ community

Growing a global ‘Rare Diseases’ community

IPWSO President, Tony Holland, writes about getting involved in the international rare diseases world. There has been considerable international activity about rare diseases in the last two weeks. I attended the 10th European Conference on Rare Diseases &...
Adapting to life in lockdown

Adapting to life in lockdown

Karin writes about life with her daughter in South Africa in a post originally shared on the Prader-Willi Syndrome Support – South Africa facebook page and reproduced here with permission. People with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have some quite unusual traits...
COVID-19 and PWS: an update

COVID-19 and PWS: an update

An understandable concern for people with PWS, their families and other carers at this time is, first, whether having PWS makes you more susceptible to catching COVID-19 and, secondly, whether people with PWS are more likely to be seriously affected if they are...