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General information about The Society.

Services provided by the Society

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

Awareness Week: 12–18 May, 2008

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.

Awareness Week Merchandise

We have some great new merchandise this year so be prepared and stock up on Birthday and Christmas presents early.

We also have had some beautiful gift cards designed for us to help with our fundraising, based on the butterfly (our symbol of breaking free). They are blank on the inside, so are perfect for any occasion.

The list below contains links to images of each item.

Downloads - ME/CFS Guidelines and Fact Sheets

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

Diagnostic information

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

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

Links - Useful Websites

If you are looking for details of national societies and organisations please click here

International Links

If you are looking for details of international societies and organisations please click here.

Links - Overseas ME/CFS & FM Societies

New Zealand

  • Association of New Zealand M.E. Sufferers
    ANZMES Inc.,
    P.O. Box 54-201,
    Bucklands Beach 1730,
    Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
    Website: http://www.anzmes.org.nz/

United States of America

  • The CFIDS Association of America
    PO Box 220398
    Charlotte, North Carolina 28222-0398
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    Phone: +1 (704) 365-2343
    Website: http://www.cfids.org/
  • The American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
    27 N. Wacker Drive
    Suite 416
    Chicago, IL 60606
    Phone: +1 (847) 258-7248
    Fax: +1 (847) 748-8288

Links - Australian ME/CFS & FM Societies

New South Wales

  • ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Society of NSW Inc.
    PO Box 5403, West Chatswood NSW 1515
    (Suite 903, 10 Help St, Chatswood NSW 2067)
    Tel: (02) 9904 8433
    Fax: (02) 9904 8435
    E-mail: mesoc@zip.com.au
    Website: www.me-cfs.org.au

Other State Societies
Membership fees for the Societies listed below vary from $14 to $40 p.a. dependent on the focus, production quality, frequency and size of each Society's publication, concession rate availability and size of membership. Some societies produce a quarterly glossy page journal. Others offer a smaller bimonthly newsletter. All have similar mission statements to NSW. Most have support group networks.

Australia Wide: National Association

Library Services

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.

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