The ME/CFS Society of NSW Inc.

Relevance of the NSW ME/CFS Society to Members and the Broader Community

Services we provide to members (random order):

Advocacy
Advocacy in fields such as:

• Housing
• Benefits
• Insurance
• Superannuation
• Other work related matters
• Schooling
• Homecare
• Legal reference

This year, Awareness Week is Monday 12 May – Sun 18 May, with Awareness day falling on the 12 May. Each year we work hard to spread awareness of this dreadful illness in the hope of garnering better understanding from friends, family, colleagues and the community-at-large, as well as appropriate treatment plans and an increase in research into ME/CFS and related conditions. It would be great if you could all wear a blue awareness ribbon during the week to catch people’s attention.

Clinical Guidelines and Brochures available for download. These documents requires 'Adobe Acrobat Reader', which can be downloaded for free by clicking here.

ME/CFS Guidelines - Management Guidelines for General Practitioners "The South Australian Guidelines"

Canadian Consensus Document for ME/CFS "The Canadian Guidelines"

The Society has an extensive library of over 150 books, 60 video and 70 audio tapes on a range of topics relating to ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and related illnesses. There are even a few cookbooks for people with food intolerances.

Borrowing is available to all members of the society, however if your membership is about to lapse, you will be required to renew before you are able to borrow. A maximum of three (3) items may be borrowed at any one time.

The Society was founded and registered as a Charity and Public Benevolent Institution in 1981, so donations to the Society, which is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, are tax deductible. Since 1981, the Society has given seed-funding to establish new support groups for people affected by ME/CFS in several Australian States and Territories, paid for experts to attend overseas conferences, obtained government grants for itself and other ME/CFS societies, and kept its members informed about ME/CFS through a quarterly journal, other publications and its library of books.