IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A graphic that says 'Thank You'. Graphics of icons for the following SM platforms: Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky. Wording - THANK YOU FOR SHARING POSTS DURING MEAW2025! Please follow us and continue to support the MEA - we really appreciate you.

Thank you to everyone who has shared our posts and helped to raise awareness of ME/CFS during ME Awareness Week!
 
Please remember to follow our social media accounts to to get regular updates on research, politics and charity news - we really appreciate you!

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ME Awareness Week 2025 12th – 18th May
ME/CFS is a hidden crisis affecting millions, leaving many bedbound and unseen. This debilitating illness robs people of their health, yet research and medical support remain critically inadequate. Awareness is key to change.
#MECFS #pwME #MEAwarenessWeek2025

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Help us raise awareness of ME/CFS by writing to your MP, sharing the reality of this hidden crisis and encouraging them to join the APPG on ME (& Long Covid).

The MEA has a template letter that you can download: https://meassociation.org.uk/get-involved/campaign/

#pwME #MECFS #MEAwarenessWeek2025

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This ME/CFS Awareness Week, the ME Association is proud to support the CureME team’s call to action for researchers.

In a special campaign, researchers can apply for free blood samples and data from the UK ME/CFS Biobank here: https://tinyurl.com/mp96zzwp 

#MECFS #MEAwarenessWeek2025 #MEAW2025

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Brighton Sea Life Centre was lit up blue on Monday 12th to mark International ME Awareness Day! 

Thank you to all organisations and businesses that have lit up blue for ME/CFS, or marked ME Awareness Day/Week in their own way.

#InternationalMEAwarenessday #MEAwarenessWeek2025 #MEAW2025

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Colourful photo of a group of university students walking and laughing together. The young man on the left is greyed out. Wording - ME/CFS: The Hidden Crisis. “ME/CFS took my dreams. While life moved on for others, I remained trapped in illness and isolation." ME Awareness week 12th - 18th May

Millions suffer from ME/CFS—an invisible illness that devastates lives. Yet, research, recognition, and support remain desperately lacking. Help us to make a difference this ME Awareness Week.

Get Involved: https://meassociation.org.uk/nc65

#MECFS #pwME #HiddenCrisis #BeforeME #MEAwarenessWeek2025

There's so much that we don't yet know about ME. What we do know is that it is a debilitating biological condition that needs greater recognition and understanding. And support for those affected. #MEAwarenessWeek2025.

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This #MEAwarenessWeek we're proud to support the incredible work of the UK ME/CFS Biobank

The CureME team's new campaign is offering free biological samples and data to researchers through a special competition.

Apply here: https://tinyurl.com/mp96zzwp

#MECFS #MEAwarenessWeek2025 #MEAW2025

Tessa Munt MP, and all 72 Lib Dem MPs, write to express their concerns to Wes Streeting about the DHSC Delivery Plan.

#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEAwarenessWeek2025

#WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessWeek2025

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of a woman with ME/CFS lying in be, which was contributed as part of the Real ME Campaign. Heading - 12 May 2025 - International ME Awareness Day. ME Association logo.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of a man with ME/CFS lying in bed, which was contributed through the Real ME Campaign. Wording - International ME Awareness Day. ME/CFS is a debilitating illness impacting millions worldwide, leaving many bedbound and unseen.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of a young woman with ME/CFS lying in bed, which was contributed through the Real ME Campaign. Wording - International ME Awareness Day - Despite this, research, recognition and medical support are desperately lacking.

Wording - Help us to raise awareness this International ME Awareness Day. Find out more about ME/CFS on our website. Images - along the bottom of the image are the social media icons for Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Youtube, Threads and BlueSky

We're kicking off ME Awareness Week with International ME Awareness Day - 12th May 2025

Take a moment to learn more about ME/CFS—and help us create a better future for those affected: https://meassociation.org.uk/what-is-mecfs/

#MEAwarenessWeek #MEAwarenessWeek2025 #MEAwarenessDay #MECFS #pwME

At the top is the text "World ME Day 2025" on a vibrant orange background. Below, text reads: "After generations of neglect and empty promises, now is the time for action." Underneath, there is a collection of logos from various ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and Long COVID advocacy groups, including #ME Action UK; #ThereForME; Action for ME; Cambridge ME Group; Crunch ME; Hope 4 ME & Fibro Northern Ireland; Kirklees & Calderdale IMESG; Long Covid Nurses & Midwives UK); The ME Association; ME Local Groups Network UK; MERC PAG; Not Recovered UK; Oxfordshire ME Group for Action; Physios for M.E.; Tymes Trust; The 25% ME Group; Keyworker Petition UK; Long Covid Advocacy; Long Covid Physio; Long Covid Scotland; Long Covid Support; ME positive; Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group; Walsall Fibro M.E. Support; Bury & Bolton ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia Support Group; ME/CFS Friendship Group in Gloucestershire; and ME Group Staffordshire.. Below, a dark blue banner reads "JOINT STATEMENT" in white capitals.

Today, on World ME Day, we stand with all those affected by ME to deliver a simple message to the UK government.

@joplatt.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @tessamunt.bsky.social

Read the joint statement: meassociation.org.uk/nsts

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