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Venezuela: 2022 Holidays

Venezuela: 2022 Holidays

Today, Monday December 26, 2022, was a beautiful day in San Luis, in Maracaibo. Everything started early today … the work of shopping for the Christmas events, packing, and ordering everything to get it organized for all the children we sponsor. Then, we packed our truck, filled to the brim…
2022HDLatam Conferences Day 1-C3: Selene Capodarca - Global Project Manager for Enroll-HD

2022HDLatam Conferences Day 1-C3: Selene Capodarca - Global Project Manager for Enroll-HD

From October 19 to 21, Factor-h organized in Barranquilla, Colombia, the 2022 Huntington Latin American Conference with the presence of 35 speakers, among them scientists, researchers, experts in different health fields, HD associations, patients, and families. In her conference on the 19th, Selene Capodarca, an associate of Factor-H and the Enroll-HD Global…
2022HDLatam Conferences Day 1-C2: Dr. Claudia Perandones

2022HDLatam Conferences Day 1-C2: Dr. Claudia Perandones

From October 19 to 21, Factor-h organized in Barranquilla, Colombia, the 2022 Huntington Latin American Conference with the presence of 35 speakers, among them scientists, researchers, experts in different health fields, HD associations, patients, and families. In her conference on the 19th, Factor-h’s co-founder Dra. Claudia Perandones, spoke about the “Relevance of…
2022HDLatam Conferences Day 1: Ignacio Muñoz Sanjuan

2022HDLatam Conferences Day 1: Ignacio Muñoz Sanjuan

From October 19 to 21, Factor-h organized in Barranquilla, Colombia, the 2022 Huntington Latin American Conference with the presence of 35 speakers among them scientists, researchers, experts in different health fields, HD associations, patients, and families. In his Welcome conference on the 19th, Factor-h’s President and founder, neuroscientist Ignacio Muñoz…
Colombian Media covers the 2022 Latin American HD Congress in Barranquilla

Colombian Media covers the 2022 Latin American HD Congress in Barranquilla

News Papers like El Heraldo, with a daily circulation of 200.000 copies and around 1 million daily visits to its website, or Radio Caracol, the main national radio station of Colombia covered, among others, the 2022 Huntington Latin American Congress organized by Factor-H. El Heraldo headline Estigma social, el verdadero…
Dancing with Art

Dancing with Art

Carmen arrived very quietly and took a seat at a table with a huge blank piece of paper, several brushes and other things that she had never used. She waited quietly, absorbed in the white of the paper, waiting for the others to take her place, and for her question…
Trabajar para Factor-H: la dignidad que nos cura

Trabajar para Factor-H: la dignidad que nos cura

Hace unos días hubo una emergencia en Colombia. Desde España oigo como Nacho me cuenta desde Los Ángeles que acababan de estar “apagando un fuego”. Su nombre es Nelson, y es querido. Ha tenido una recaída. Es como si una pequeña red invisible e infinita nos uniera a todos. No…
The hidden work of Factor-H - the story of Nelson

The hidden work of Factor-H - the story of Nelson

Nelson Echeverría is 49 years old and he is one of the HD individuals we assist. He is a wonderful person and always receives our social workers with a big smile. He lives in the outskirts of the town of Saco in the Atlántico department in Northern Colombia. He lives…
32 volunteers working back in Barranquitas!

32 volunteers working back in Barranquitas!

On Saturday May 21, 52 volunteers from Factor-H where in Maracaibo, Venezuela, giving medical assistant to kids and patients with Huntington Disease.
Visiting Colombia after the pandemic

Visiting Colombia after the pandemic

Finally the Factor-H team got together in Colombia in April 2022, after a hiatus of two and a half years. During the trip, Ignacio Muñoz and Roger Cachope went to visit the families and kids we support on the Caribbean states, and spent 8 days traveling from town to town…
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