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What's New

November 2007

The "Equity for Illness" website is an advocacy site addressing government funding that can be seen to be inequitable for New Zealanders disabled through illness, rather than by an accident. This includes a focus on the New Zealand Disability Strategy (April 2001), and Objective 7.5 which encourages equity of funding and service provision for people with similar needs, regardless of the cause of their impairment.

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July 2007

The June 2007 issue of "The Copper Connection" (1.81 MB, PDF format) is available here.

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May 2007

New Zealand Herald, 7th May 2007
Transplant mum tells of organ donor's gift of life here.

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April 2007 Auckland Memorial Service 2007

If anyone is attending the Thanksgiving Service on Sunday 6 May 2007 at the Auckland Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, could they please save a copy of the programme and contact ptoli@ihug.co.nz to enable this to be scanned and loaded on this website. Thank you.

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Nov 2006

AA Directions has reporter Kim Griggs writing on organ donation, including the story of Dawn, a young woman born with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency who received a liver transplant.
(Published in AA Directions, Summer 2006, Issue No. 70, pages 37-38)

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May 2005

Lyn writes of being Transplant recipient #87 in New Zealand, and how she dealt with her liver transplant in 2001. (May 2005 - First published in North and South, May 2005, reprinted with permission)

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February 2005

Details of the "Liver Transplant Education Sessions" for this year can be found on the Support Groups page.

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August 2003

The American Association for the study of Liver Diseases has recently published "A Practice Guideline on Wilson's Disease", written by Dr. Michael Schilsky and Dr. Eve Roberts. You can read about this in the Liver Links section.

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May 2003

The Service of Thanksgiving was held in Auckland on the 4th May at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Linda B, a Liver Transplant Recipient, was one of the speakers, and spoke of what it meant to her to receive the gift of life through the donation of an organ.

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May 2002

The Recipients' Resource Pack is now available from the Transplant House page, which details important things to remember to do, once you are listed for a liver transplant, based on the experience of other recipients. Our thanks to John and Susan Russell for compiling this excellent resource.

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April 2002

Apologies from us for the lack of new content in recent months. There have been two reasons for this, firstly, the webhost returned to full-time employment in August 2001, and secondly, from January 2002 we have had problems with our Internet Service Provider and have been unable to post new material.

It is with great sadness that we announce a new section on our website, titled "In Memory", where we can remember those of us, thankfully few, who have struggled and not survived. For those of us who knew Noelle, she was an inspiration in her fight to survive and we will always remember her and her family. Rest well, Noelle.

Our 2002 Site Sponsor and Liver Transplant recipient has been spending time creating a "Forum" for this website. This is a great enhancement to the site as it now provides for interactive questions, comments, suggestions and answers. Thank you very much, John, for all your hard work!

Bethli describes her life with Wilson's Disease, and what lead to her liver transplant in August 2000, which you can view in Our Stories.

Andy Tookey shares the story of his young daughter's illness, and need for a liver transplant in the future, with a press article in our In the News section.

A brief report of the Service of Thanksgiving held at the Auckland Cathedral of The Holy Trinity on Sunday, 21st April 2002, is now available.

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August 2001

Work and Income benefits information can be viewed on their web site.

The August issue of "Hepatic Happenings" is now available from the Newsletters section in both HTML and WORD.

Auckland Hospital's internal newsletter "Heartbeat" has an article in the August / September 2001 issue (no. 49) about the donation of $60,000 from the Renai Brown Family Trust to the New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit.

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July 2001

An interview between Rae Lamb and Bethli Wainwright on live liver transplantation aired on Checkpoint, National Radio on Wednesday 25^th July, 2001. Live liver transplantation has now been approved in New Zealand.

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June 2001

Press Release from the Auckland District Health Board about the $60,000 donation from the Renai Brown Family Trust to the New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit for the benefit of liver transplant recipients and their families. This article is available from the In the News section.

The New Zealand Herald reported on the 8th June that the New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit has been granted approval to provide transplant services to children under the age of 7. Before this, children had to obtain life-saving transplants overseas. This article is available from the In the News section.

The June issue of "Hepatic Happenings" is now available from the Newsletters section in both HTML and WORD.

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May 2001

Stefan Foster was a 16 year old who tragically died, and his mother donated his organ to save others lives. She told of her experience, and what her son was like, at the Auckland Service of Thanksgiving.

Roger was playing competitive pool 11 days after his liver transplant! His story is available in our Our Stories section.

Kerry's story, the story of a young New Zealand woman, who died in the prime of her life, and her family's decision to donate her organs to save the lives of others, is available now in our Donors section.

An article in the "Western Leader" about this website is now available in our In the News section.

Candles and Camellias is Stephen Brooker's reaction to the moving Service of Thanksgiving held in Auckland in 2000.

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April 2001

Photos and commentary about the Service of Thanksgiving held at the Auckland Cathedral of The Holy Trinity, on Sunday, 29th April 2001.

A new In the News page linked to from the Index page, which notes stories about organ donation and transplantation in the media.

A new Recent Research page from the Liver Links page, with information about "iloprost" as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension.

The story of Murray and Karen Wakelin, of Christchurch, called Our Stay at Lions Transplant House, is now available from the Accommodation page.

Link Bus map now available on the Accommodation page.

This site was launched on the 19th April 2001.
As items are added, they are notified here.

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Last updated 17-July -2007