Patient Groups/Australia
Patient Groups are organisations which claim to represent the interests of patients suffering various illnesses. Many are funded, and in some case staffed, by the pharmaceutical companies which sell treatments for the relevant illnesses.
Patient Groups in Australia include:
- Arthritis Australia
- Consumers' Health Forum of Australia
- DepressioNet
- Herpes Foundation
- Impotence Australia
- Learning and Attentional Disorders Society
- Macular Degeneration Foundation
- Meningitis Centre
- Mental Health Council of Australia
- Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
- National Asthma Council
- Osteoporosis Australia
- SANE Australia