Tonight, Andy, Michelle, and I went to the CSA staff meeting to present Team HBV in hopes of gaining their support and getting permission to speak at their club's general meeting.  Andy did all of the talking and Michelle and I were there for moral support!  We seemed to get a good initial reaction.  I think the CSA members found many of the facts about hepatitis B surprising.  Their guesses for the prevalence of hepatitis B were much lower than the actual...I think some of the guesses were 40 million, 50 million (athough one person did say 1 billion).  For sure, I think Andy's comments that based on the statistics, some of the people in the room may have hepatits B or not have the antibodies for it made an impact. 

Something exciting that hopefully works out was CSA's proposal to have Team HBV serve as the benefactor for their annual charity concert.  They currently don't have anyone in mind and it's open to others, but if we keep pushing for it, then Team HBV may be able to do this.  That would be a very good, exciting opportunity.  We will definitely bring this up at our next meeting.  The money from this concert would go to a charity/non-profit organization, meaning that if Team HBV was the benefactor, the money from this event could be donated to maybe Asian Liver Center (not too sure, but we will check on the details) or even towards funding vaccinations in China (if we can find a specific program in China to be the recipient of the funds).  It's still very up in the air, but I think this would be a good thing to pursue.

All in all, I think we got a good response.