Women’s Insights into Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most serious form of arthritis. It is not a rare disease, affecting around half a million Australians. Of these cases almost 60% are women.
As part of Arthritis Awareness Week 2010, Arthritis Australia and the Australian Rheumatology Association began a campaign to give a voice to the almost 300,000 Australian women with rheumatoid arthritis.
The campaign was launched at Parliament House, Canberra and has the support of 12 female Federal MPs, including the Hon Julia Gillard MP, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, the Hon Jenny Macklin MP, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, the Hon Justine Elliot MP, the Hon Kate Ellis MP, Senator Carol Brown, the Hon Bronwyn Bishop MP, Senator Sue Boyce, Senator Rachel Siewert, and Mrs Kay Hull MP.
To read these twelve inspiring stories in PDF format, click here.
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