Facebook Memory - October 21, 2022 Of the FORTY nations the CF Vests Worldwide Team has provided with Cystic Fibrosis vests, Brazil has received the most.

15% of the 151 RespirTech and Hill Rom Cystic Fibrosis vests CFVWW has provided to CF patients have gone to this country. Meet the 19th person in Brazil to receive a CF vest -

"Hi, my name is Gustavo. I’m 24 years old and I live in Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil. I received my diagnosis at birth with the Newborn Screening Test and Sweat Test and treated it during childhood and teenage in a referral hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Between the ages of 11 and 13, I lived in ChengDu, China, along with my father, who was looking for a better life. During the years I lived there, I only took what I could carry in my luggage: enzymes for 6 months and pulmozyme for basically a single month. When the medication ran out, the treatment was stopped. I returned to Brazil at the age of 13, in poor health and with burkholderia cepacia.

Since I was 16, I've taken care of my treatment alone. Nowadays I work from my house in the technology sector."