Aggregating Worldwide Medication Information

Hello HealingWell Community!

My name is David and I've had UC since 2011 when I was 18. As of May 2017, I got my disease (nearly) in remission with the help of Entyvio and Rowasa (yay)!

I've been silently reading posts here since I was diagnosed and I have never posted until now! I'm posting here because of my friend's cool project that I know will contribute to the community.

One of my dreams is to be able to travel around the world for months at a time, uninhibited by UC, which is currently not easy. Recently I discovered a good friend of mine (Alex) also has UC and also has similar dreams.

He then created a project with a group of people to aggregate information necessary to empower us and others to take our life-saving medications in other countries.

We're currently gathering information on taking UC medication internationally and will be sharing it here and in other communities by the end of November 2018!

We're committed to having as comprehensive and detailed collection of data as possible and we'd love to hear other peoples international stories!

How did you get medication to other countries? How did you find infusion centers? What challenges did you face with insurance companies? Any and all information for international medication is valuable and will make an impact for us and others!

Thanks for reading and stay tuned!

Hello HealingWell Community!

My team and I were able to do some research so far and we wanted to share it with you:

The following are a list of countries we investigated for Entyvio, and whether or not they’re approved for UC/Chrons. Countries in bold are not approved. Also note that these are not comprehensive lists of countries! (:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
China (Hong Kong)
China (PRC)
China (Taiwan)
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Ethiopia
Finlant
France
Greece
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
India
Ireland
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
USA
Venezuela

The following are a list of countries we investigated for Remicaide, and whether or not they’re approved for UC/Chrons. Countries in bold are not approved. Also note that these are not comprehensive lists of countries! (:

Australia
Brazil
Canada
China (Hong Kong)
China (PRC) (No for UC)
China (Taiwan)
EU
Iceland
Israel
Japan
Mexico
Norway
United Kingdom
USA

We hope this makes a difference for someone! We'd still love to hear your experience getting or taking these difficult medications in other countries!