On July 25th 2024, Representative from Massachusetts Rob Consalvo, voted for a game changing healthcare bill that increases access and the affordability of prescription drugs. It also included his amendment to create Massachusetts first ever Special Commission on the disease Vitiligo! This new Commission will address health insurance coverage, innovative, affordable and beneficial treatments and address the social and emotional issues associated with Vitiligo. Thank you Rep. Rob Consalvo for your continued fight for those with vitiligo and working with VITFriends Vitiligo Support Group!!!
🚨NEWS!!!🚨
VITFriends Vitiligo Support Group has been working along side Incyte to make sure that treatments for vitiligo are being covered by insurance companies!
📢With our voices Colorado State Medicaid and Iowa State Medicaid have now defined vitiligo as an AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE instead of a COSMETIC condition. This now opens access up to over 2.5 million people! This is a HUGE win!! We hope that other states will follow suite....including New York State who we are currently up against!
🥊We MUST keep fighting to teach others about vitiligo!
VITFriends Vitiligo Support Group leaders from several states were able to gather in Raleigh, North Carolina for the Inaugural VITFriends Leadership Training. Our sessions included a section on 501c3, Mental Health, and Reading in Schools! We also were able to view a "fine cut" of the documentary film More Than Our Skin. This was all made possible by our generous sponsor Incyte! Thank you to Incyte!!
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Happy New Year 2023 from our VITFriends Community to YOU and your Family.
Representing the voices outside of our National community, like professor Jorge Luis Perez Hidalgo of VITFriends Cuba (VITAMIGOS). https://www.facebook.com/Vitamigos?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Please meet Myrella Liz Cruz Rentas a Scientist at the University in Puerto Rico and some of her co-workers and friends:
A Happy New Year from our VITFriends Community to YOU and your Family.
Representing the voice of the WOMEN of our community, meet Tiffany Stancil of NC:
A Holiday Greeting from our VITFriends Community to you and your Family.
Representing the voice of the MEN of our community, meet Joshua Hampton
Joshua is an outstanding young man, who first joined us at our Inaugural RALLY on the U. S. Capitol Steps in 2016:
Last Sunday the vitiligo community can together for a Family Friendly Holiday Social. It was great to come together to chat and be merry! Thank you to Mark Braxton for hosting the event. Enjoy in our fun!
Merry Christmas!
From all of us at VITFriends we wish you a very Merry Christmas!!!!
A Holiday Greeting from our VITFriends Community to you and your Family.
From our Pen Pal Patch Children's Group for ages 4 - 13:
A Holiday Greeting from our VITFriends Community to you and your Family.
This is from our Purple Patch Teen Group for ages 13 - 20:
Help others with vitiligo!
🗓November 29th 2022 is #GivingTuesday, a worldwide day of giving! This year we hope you consider making VITFriends your charity of choice!!
https://www.vitfriends.org/donate.htm
👉🏼Who we are: We are a diverse volunteer community that nurtures peer-to-peer relationships and provides support to many of the 5 Million people with Vitiligo in the USA. With boots on the ground, digitally & physically, we build connections with our community.
🤝Support: We provide our community with the mentorships and one-to-one connections needed to foster a sense of belonging.
🎓Education: We provide the world with clear information to break the stigma and raise awareness about the experience of people with Vitiligo as we empower each other.
🗽Advocacy: We provide healthcare and government institutions the first-hand expertise needed to impact policy change, which will ultimately enhance the Quality of Life of those with Vitiligo.
💵All donations made on that day will have no fees made via Facebook.
GivingTuesday #givingtuesday #vitiligo #vitfriends #support #nonprofit #vitiligoworld #vitiligonation #vitiligofamily #vitiligosupport #vitiligoawareness #vitiligoadvocacy
VITFriends speaks about the newly FDA approved drug for vitiligo
VITFriends founder Valarie Molyneaux, her husband and member Roy Molyneaux and treasure Barbara Hamilton speak about the newly FDA approved drug for vitiligo. Opzelura was created by Incyte
