Rabat, Morocco, 10-year-old boy, Abdou, living with cystic fibrosis (interview completed with help from mom) About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosis?According to a study made back in 2008, Moroccan population is at risk of this pathology and CF prevalence could be of the order of that observed in European populations (Ratbi...
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Thanks again to CF Europe for helping secure this week’s interview! Istanbul, Turkey, 11-year-old living with cystic fibrosis (interview completed with help from parent) About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosisThere are about 3500 patients registered, but the actual figure is estimated to be much higher. Do people in your country know...
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Another thanks to CF Europe for the help with this week’s interview! Lisbon, Portugal, 4-year-old girl living with cystic fibrosis (interview completed by parent) About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosis? In Portugal, there are currently around 400 people with CF. Do people in your country know what CF is?I believe that...
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We are back with another interview thanks to our friends at CF Europe! Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emina, 24 living with cystic fibrosis About how many people in your country have cystic fibrosis?50 (42 children and 8 adults) Do people in your country know what CF is? I think most of them don’t know, and...
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After a lengthy pause, Cystic Fibrosis Around the World returns with some help thanks to our friends at CF Europe. Cystic Fibrosis Around the World is the longest standing series on the blog. It started in the beginning of 2017 with the goal of showing our mostly North American audience how CF is cared for...
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We head back to Europe for this installment of Cystic Fibrosis Around the World. Today we meet Clara, she is 16 years old living with cystic fibrosis and heading towards the transplant list. Clara offers fantastic commentary for the state of things for people with CF living in Italy. [brackets indicate an edit for translation]...
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Cystic Fibrosis Around the World heads back to the Middle East to talk to an adult living with CF in Jordan! Again… thanks to the Middle East Cystic Fibrosis Association for helping to make this connection! We did have a pretty significant language barrier throughout this interview. Yazan had to use a translator program, so...
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