We are a patient advocacy movement aiming to raise awareness of Chronic Urinary Tract Infection. This is currently a poorly recognised disease that affects males, females and children globally. Urinary Tract Infections (UTI’s) are assumed to be a simple, uncomplicated condition which resolves easily with a short course of antibiotics. However for 30% of suffers (this may have increased since last publication) this becomes a chronic manifestation.

There is currently one NHS lead tertiary care clinic in the UK providing specialist treatment for sufferers. There is a lack of awareness of the condition within the wider medical community meaning that the majority of suffers are misdiagnosed with alternative urogynacological conditions. Our aim is to raise awareness of the condition so that sufferers can obtain better access to appropriate specialist treatment and to further the advancement of research into the causes and better treatments. Our ethos is to be guided only by the science and latest research into the disease and not anecdotal claims or treatment methods without strong medical evidence.