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Originally Posted by Sapphire Spirit I finally got my butt into gear and joined posaa. Just got my membership info in the mail today. It seems to me to be a GREAT organisation with a finger on the pulse....I think I'll really enjoy the newsletters and diet info. |
Good on you Amy, that's great. It's well worth joining, even if you never get to a national conference. They offer so much, all volunteers hard at work trying to help thousands of pcos women they've never even met.
The main reason I joined Posaa is because they have a great agenda to get pcos on the health ministers radar and are trying to get a national taskforce happening. The aim of it is to get attention for services to pcos women and they can't do that without the support of large numbers of pcos women joining forces to fight for good treatment and services. Without us, their voice may not be heard as loudly and I would encourage all Aussie women with pcos to join the Association.
They want to do things like get laser hair removal into a medicare rebate status so that pcos women can get safe treatments from qualified medical practitioners. Another thing they are trying to do is get a set of national guidelines for medical practioners treating women for pcos such as having gtt/insulin type testing and metformin treatments as standard practice. They also keep an eye out for research projects and new ideas on pcos in Australia and the world, and try to get info out to the community.
They offer great webchats for members with specialists like exercise physiologists and nutritionists, which is great because the chats are free and you could wait months or pay alot or have to travel long distances to access these people. The newsletters are great too. So much for $20 a year (with a one off joining fee of ten bucks), when you think of how much money you've spent on pcos treatments/specialists, it's great value.
For anyone thinking about joining, just go to the website for details
http://www.posaa.asn.au
You can access the conference details there too.
