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Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
Each May the National Osteoporosis
Foundation (NOF) celebrates Osteoporosis
Awareness and Prevention Month. NOF has
developed campaigns whose themes,
messages and activities build towards
the goal of increasing awareness of and
action related to osteoporosis.
NOF, together with its partners, has
strived to make this all too prevalent
disease relevant, and ensure that
corresponding messages are strong,
engaging and encourage action.
Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention
Month in May is an opportunity for NOF,
along with individuals and partners
across the country, to raise awareness
of osteoporosis and bone health on a
grassroots and national level.
May 2007
"Osteoporosis. It's Beatable. It's
Treatable."
To recognize Osteoporosis
Awareness and Prevention Month in 2007,
NOF developed a Public Service
Announcement (PSA) campaign and Bone
Tool Kit with the theme, "Osteoporosis.
It's Beatable. It's Treatable." that address the important
issues associated with osteoporosis
for different audiences, and encourage
people to take action to protect their
bone health and prevent osteoporosis.
Click here to
download these free materials!
2007 Partners in
Prevention
NOF thanks the following
companies, organizations and
associations for generously serving as
the 2007 Partners in
Prevention for NOF's Osteoporosis
Awareness and Prevention Month
campaign.
Moroch
Inspire!
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Corporation
P&G Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Mission
Pharmacal Company
Pharmavite
Executive Council to the 2007 US
Women's Open
American
Academy of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
American
Association of Clinical
Endocrinologists
American
College of Radiology
American
College of Rheumatology
American
Society for Bone and Mineral
Research
International Society for Clinical
Densitometry
General Federation of
Women's Clubs
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Annual Campaign
Highlights
2006 "Osteoporosis...It Matters"
Strong
Women Stand TallTM
NOF
successfully launched Strong Women
Stand TallTM (SWST), a
national program to inspire
women to come together, celebrate
their strength and build strong
bodies and futures. SWST ended the
year with nearly 6,000 new members,
a new Web site (www.strongwomenstandtall.org),
and three educational brochures that
educate women how to take action to
protect their bone health.
2005 "Think You Can Recognize the Face
of Osteoporosis...Think Again"
Congressional Briefing
The
National Osteoporosis Foundation
(NOF) hosted a Congressional
Briefing on May 11, 2005, to review
Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A
Report of the Surgeon General,
the first-ever Surgeon General’s
report on the topic.
2004 "Osteoporosis. Chances Are...It
Could Be You."
Capitol Hill Briefing
The Foundation
convened a congressional briefing,
“Osteoporosis: Improving Your
Community’s Awareness and
Prevention.” Senator Olympia Snowe
(R-ME) and Representative Shelley
Berkley (D-NV) also placed
statements in the Congressional
Record during the month of May.
Senator Snowe described the enormous
burden that osteoporosis places on
individuals and the nation and urged
passage of two bills to ensure
adequate coverage of bone mass
measurement she had introduced
earlier in the 108th
Congress.
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Annual Campaign Materials
Below
are downloadable materials produced for past
Osteoporosis Awareness and
Prevention Month campaigns.
To order Prevention
Month items and other
educational materials that address
osteoporosis and related diseases to
both the patient and professional level,
visit the
NOF Store. Discounts on
materials apply for several of the
membership levels and for orders of $500
or more.
Posters
To purchase hard copy versions of these
materials,
click here.
Brochures
To purchase hard copy versions of these
materials,
click
here.
Fact Sheets
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Get involved in Osteoporosis
Awareness and Prevention Month in your
community.
Click here to join NOF in
celebrating Osteoporosis Awareness and
Prevention Month by creating a
fundraising event in your community.
For more
information on NOF’s annual awareness
and prevention
campaign contact
communications@nof.org.
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