What are bleeding disorders?
Bleeding disorders are a group of conditions that result when the blood cannot clot properly. People with bleeding disorders either lacks or has defective proteins called factors that bind together to form clots.
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What is HAP?
We are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as non-stock, non-profit organization. Our main objective is to provide immediate assistance to our members who are experiencing life-threatening bleeds.
We receive humanitarian donation of anti-hemophilic Factor concentrates from non-profit organizations abroad and we distribute these for free to patients with life-threatening and limb-threatening bleeds.
Hemophilia in The Philippines
Majority of Filipinos with bleeding disorders live below poverty line (Around US$233/month income or less). Many of them either have limited or no access at all to medicines mainly because of poverty and lack of education (or lack of awareness on their condition)
Very few hospitals have the capability to handle patients with bleeding disorders. Hospitals that are properly equipped to treat people with bleeding disorders are mostly based in urban centers like Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao. Worse, they are mostly private hospitals that are not affordable to majority of the patients.
1M
1million Filipinos are estimated to have bleeding disorders
10k
Ten thousand of them are estimated to have Hemophilia
1.7k
but only less than 1,700 have been registered in the Philippines
these numbers need to change
PEOPLE WITH BLEEDING DISORDERS NEED YOUR HELP
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OUR MEDIA PARTNERS
