INDICATION
CUVITRU is a ready-to-use liquid medicine that is given under the skin (subcutaneously) to treat primary immunodeficiency (PI) in people 2 years and older.
Why CUVITRU Brochure
If you’re considering talking to your doctor about CUVITRU, check out this brochure to learn more about CUVITRU and how it may help you. It’s also part of the CUVITRU Consideration Kit. Make sure you ask your doctor for it!
Beginning treatment with CUVITRU is explained in the Patient Starter Kit.
Takeda provides Patient Starter Kits to specialty pharmacies. The kits are designed to help educate patients about infusing CUVITRU and should be sent along with their infusion system. The kit does not replace training by a healthcare provider. The kit includes the following:
You can also watch a video to walk you through everything in your kit.
The Overview Guide has all the basics.
What CUVITRU is, what supplies you'll receive, tips for what to do while infusing, and much more can be found here.
Get the Step-By-Step Infusion Guide.
The guide outlines the steps. Keep this guide on hand for a refresher if you need it. Your healthcare team will make sure you’re properly trained on how to infuse your medication.
Wellness Journal
Keep this handy during infusions to record details of your infusion and jot down notes for yourself, including questions or concerns to ask your doctor about.
You may also want to check out HelloCUVITRU to learn about the CUVITRU Free Trial Program.
And, at MyIgSource.com, you can learn about a whole community committed to helping patients with PI and their caregivers.
Sources worth looking into
Whether you’re interested in research or connecting with others living with PI, these sources have insights to share.*
Founded in 1980, IDF is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life of people with PI.
If you want to connect with other people living with PI, check out IDF’s discussion boards.
IDF also has a great handbook on how to handle insurance issues and questions if you need it.
You can even download an entire chapter about health insurance from an IDF book.
IDF has local events and holds a national conference every other year in June. In the off years, they hold family retreat weekends. IDF is available to help in many ways, so you may want to register on their website.
A global patient organization devoted to early and precise diagnosis, meaningful treatments, and, ultimately, cures through research, education, support, and advocacy.
You can find JMF on a number of social media sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Flickr, where people living with PI can support each other. You can find the links at jmfworld.com.
In 2004, JMF created the first-ever public service advertising campaign for primary immunodeficiency to coincide with their focus on public awareness and physician education. Since then, they have continued to expand the reach of the campaign to help bring knowledge to members of the PI community and the public. To learn more, please visit www.info4pi.org/wjmf/psa-campaign.
World PI Week aims to raise awareness and diagnosis of PI on a global level. On their website, you can learn all about PI and the events that occur all across the world during World PI Week. World PI Week was founded by a variety of organizations, including the Immune Deficiency Foundation and Jeffrey Modell Foundation.
AAAAI is a professional organization that has tools for the public, including a search page that can help you find an immunologist.
*These organizations are third-party resources and not associated with Takeda.