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Cystic Fibrosis Canada is a champion for cystic fibrosis patients, parents and families. From helping you get started on your grassroots advocacy journey to ensuring CF voices are represented in the highest offices of our nation.
As your national leader in cystic fibrosis advocacy, we defend your interests – the interests of the CF community – to carve the path towards longer, healthier lives for Canadians with cystic fibrosis.
Since being founded in 1960 by parents, Cystic Fibrosis Canada has a more than 60 year track record of success in driving needed change for Canadians living with cystic fibrosis. We have pushed both federally and provincially over the years, always in partnership with the CF community, achieving successes such as needed amendments to the Income Tax Act in 2000; or the universal implementation of CF newborn screening (NBS) tests across Canada by 2017.
Today our work continues as we relentlessly fight to access the latest innovative CF medicines and voice our community’s needs during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Our reach is wide and we are able to act with speed, expertise and strategy both federally and provincially, thanks to our presence in every province combined with our national network of advocacy volunteers.
Learn about our National Advocacy Network
Drawing on the expertise of our government relations team and the strength of our community, we bring together a network of local and international partners, like clinicians, researchers, health charity coalitions and other CF organisations, to meaningfully influence policy matters impacting the CF community in Canada.
Above all, Cystic Fibrosis Canada cares deeply about creating a brighter future for you and for all Canadians impacted by cystic fibrosis. Together, we will keep pushing further to create a future where cystic fibrosis is not a life limiting disease and every Canadian living with CF can experience and enjoy everything that life has to offer.
Access to innovative, life-changing CF medicines is a top priority for Cystic Fibrosis Canada and the CF community. There is a life-changing medicine, Trikafta, that could change the lives of 90% of Canadians living with cystic fibrosis and dramatically reduce deaths and hospitalisations according to a recent study we funded. It is available in other countries, but not here in Canada - yet.
Cystic Fibrosis Canada works to improve access to life-changing and life-sustaining medicines by:
Learn more about Getting Access to CF Medicines
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have advocated for access to COVID-19 vaccines for Canadians living with cystic fibrosis as well as for other needs of the CF community.
See COVID-19 Information for the CF Community
Cystic Fibrosis Canada empowers and equips you to drive change that improves the lives of people living with cystic fibrosis.
Current campaigns, programs and projects you can get involved in include:
If you would like to discuss other ways you can help or how we can support you in your CF advocacy journey, we’re listening! Please email us at advocacy@cysticfibrosis.ca.
Register now to receive The Advocacy Brief e-newsletter direct to your inbox for the latest in CF advocacy news, ways you can help and stories from our CF advocate community.
Join us for a fun night of laughs on Thursday, June 17th at 8:00 p.m., just in time for Father's Day! Put the children to bed and pull up a chair for some good laughs about adulting. This show is virtual but NOT pre-recorded - it's live. We promise there will be NO bad Dad jokes!
*See event listing to learn more*
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My name is Tyrus Sleightholme. I am 19 years old and was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when I was about two weeks old.
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