By Arnel Arroyo Díaz We celebrate another milestone in our mission to support the most vulnerable HD communities! We are proud to share that we have once again delivered school kits to families afflicted with Huntington’s disease in more than 10 municipalities on the Colombian Caribbean coast. This effort has…

Gratitude day 2024 brings hope to Venezuela The importance of the contributions of the Venezuelan families to HD research and disease understanding cannot be minimized, even with the passing of time. The journey of these families in advancing our scientific and medical work started in the 1970s, after the presentation…

The week of Gratitude day, 23rd of March, has seen an inclusion of community events inside the HD communities of San Luis and Barranquitas. The celebration of the partnership between scientists and HD families has taken an unexpected turn this year and also became a celebration of the history of…

In the recent EHDN Newsletter, Factor-H work is featured in two articles – the first launches the 2024 Gratitude Day campaign; the second is by Alex Fisher, who tells her story of coming to Venezuela and the work she is conducting together with Factor-H & Habitat LUZ in Maracaibo to…

Gratitude Day Donations! See a summary video of Factor-H and collaborators programs in Venezuela in 2023 On March 23, 1993, a landmark Cell article was published, describing that the mutation in the gene responsible for Huntington’s disease had been identified for the first time. This discovery was possible thanks to…

It is a reality that our patients with HD in Venezuela are subsisting in an environment of great precariousness, not only due to their economic limitations but also because specialized health care is inaccessible in Venezuela, since the national public system does not operate properly. Understanding this harsh reality is…

Alex Fisher is an occupational therapist specialized in caring for HD patients from the UK; she works actively with various working groups as part of EHDN, the European HD Network. She visited for the first time the HD communities in Venezuela, together with the Factor-H team, in September 2023. Alex…

On September 3, 2023, at The Lodge Room in Los Angeles, about 200 people gathered in an evening of solidarity with HD families living in poverty in Latin America, to celebrate the contributions of many of these families to the identification of the HD mutation in the 1980s and 1990s.…

22 humanitarian organizations = 1 common purpose: to help families in Venezuela Arepa Day is a campaign aimed at improving access to health and nutritional services for Venezuelan families. Global Giving, the non-profit organization that supports other foundations, has selected 22 US-based non-profit foundations focused on helping Venezuelan causes, to…

Ruth Blanco, president of the HD association in Spain & coordination of the European Huntington’s (EHA) program ‘Moving Forward‘ for Spain, conducted a series of interviews to support Factor-H Gratitude Day campaign. Ruth interviewed several scientists and family advocates from Europe, the USA and Venezuela, including Ignacio Muñoz-Sanjuán, to discuss…