Choose an interest area:

• Comfort & Cure Sick Children
• Prevent AIDS & Immune Disorders
• Prevent Alzheimer's
• Prevent Arthritis
• Prevent Asthma & Lung Disease
• Prevent Birth Defects & Childhood Illnesses
• Prevent Brain & Spinal Cord Disorders & Injuries
• Prevent Cancer
• Prevent Diabetes & Kidney Disease
• Prevent Drug & Alcohol Addiction
• Prevent Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Prevent Heart Disease & Stroke
• Prevent Liver Disease
• Prevent Lung Disease
• Prevent Muscular, Neurological and Neuromuscular Disorders
• Prevent Osteoporosis
• Prevent Parkinson's
• Prevent Skin Disease
• Promote Mental Health
• Promote Oral Health
• Promote Reproductive Health
• Provide Care & Support for the Sick
• Support Blood Banks
• Support Organ Donations & Transplants

Signs of Need

• Blood donations save the lives of 4 million patients every year.

• 65% of those who receive hospice care are cancer patients. It costs $100 a day to care for a cancer patient.

• Over 11 million Americans are alcoholics.

• 1,814 people died in 1996 waiting for a kidney transplant. 36,000 people are waiting for a kidney.

Signs of Hope

The successes of medical research in this century are some of the greatest achievements in human history. Just as we eradicated polio and small pox, many charities are working to cure today's killers.

• AIDS: We've cut the death rate in half with new drug therapies like AZT and the AIDS cocktail, needle-exchange programs, and educating new mothers about mother-child transmission. But this epidemic has spread to new populations in the U.S. and around the world at a devastating rate. Each day 16,000 people become infected, including 1,600 babies.

• BASIC HEALTH: Initiatives like Healthy People 2000, a coalition of 350 organizations, have worked to lower rates of preventable diseases, maternal and child mortality rates, and nutritional deficiencies.

• BREAST CANCER: Death rates for women with breast cancer are on the decline, especially for younger women, a sign that early detection and better treatment are helping.

• LUNG CANCER: Lung cancer death rates are on the decline in the U.S., but lung cancer is a growing problem around the world.

You can help by supporting the leading organizations that are finding a cure and comforting those who have already become ill.

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