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Women and girls with hemophilia | Virtual Summit 2020

In this session from the WFH 2020 Virtual Summit, Roseline d’Oiron, Sarah O’Brien and Andra James discuss issues on women and girls with hemophilia (WGWH), including female carriers with low levels of FVIII or FIX and/or bleeding experiences. The key points that will be covered are the importance of early diagnosis during childhood of affected […]

Desmopressin (DDAVP)

This resource has also been translated into the following languages, with permission from the WFH, by NMOs: Polish Desmopressin (DDAVP) may be the treatment of choice for patients with mild or moderate hemophilia A and type 1 von Willebrand disease (VWD). This Fact Sheet presents essential information about this synthetic medicine which costs much less than […]

Genetic Counselling for Hemophilia

Genetic counselling constitutes an integral part of the comprehensive hemophilia care team providing people with hemophilia, and their families, clinical and scientific information, supporting individuals through the decision-making process regarding prenatal and carrier testing, and offering individualized psychosocial assessment and counselling before and after genetic testing. This resource introduces genetic counsellors, the genetic counselling process, […]