Like you, we’ve got big dreams.

A big vision.
A world free of the suffering caused by CFS.

Suffering that occurs not just because of the many symptoms of the illness and all the body systems that are affected, but suffering that comes from people not knowing.

Doctors not understanding.

Family members growing impatient.

Friends drifting away.

Hopes deferred. Scripts rewritten. Lives erased.

We’re working hard to change the future for the millions of people affected by chronic fatigue syndrome. CFS is a serious and complex illness, a puzzle that has defied being solved for a quarter of a century. So what’s different now?

What makes us think we can change the future?

We have you, and a lot of people like you, who want to be part of the solution.

Together we can solve CFS.

The CFIDS Association of America has taken a commanding leadership role in research. We have built a network of linked investigators that is already producing results. We’re repositioning CFS as an important policy issue for lawmakers and policymakers.

Like most complex puzzles, the more people working on the problem, the more rapidly we’ll identify the solution. Last year you helped expand our research program by enabling us to reach our $1 million goal for the first phase of the Campaign to Accelerate CFS Research. Now we’re building on that momentum and aiming even higher – to raise $5 million by the end of 2010. These funds will support the Association’s vital research and policy initiatives that will validate, innovate and, ultimately, eliminate CFS.

What makes you think we can’t change the future?
 If we don’t do it, who will?

Learn more about us and our mission to make CFS widely understood, diagnosable, curable and preventable. Be part of the solution. Take a photo with the SolveCFS sign and add it to our online album. Share our video. Share your story. Engage others and encourage their support. Together we can solve CFS.