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.
10k
Ten thousand Filipinos are estimated to have Hemophilia
Only about 1,500 have been registered with the Philippine Hemophilia Foundation.
1%
Prevalence of vWD is estimated to be 1% of the population
Von Willebrand Disease (vWD) equally affects males and females. However, women are more likely to experience symptoms of vWD because of increased bleeding during menstrual periods, pregnancy, and after childbirth.
20
Only about 20 people with vWD have been registered in the Philippines.
A small number considering there are about 1,000,000 Filipinos with vWD & other Related bleeding disorders
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