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The Arthritis Foundation Is Spreading
Arthritis Awareness To All Corners Of The
World
The Arthritis Foundation is found represented in almost all
parts of the world. The National Arthritis Foundation is a
registered charitable body that began in 1984 and is the
largest public organization in Singapore, devoting its energies
to help arthritis sufferers, educate patients as well as the
public on arthritis as well as to support research for this
disease. It is a coordinating as well as management body that
works closely with pharmaceutical companies as well as
specialists in arthritis to realize its goals.
Caring For Patients, Advocating Against Arthritis Is A Part
Of Its Mission
The vision of the National Arthritis Foundation is to care for
patients, advocate against arthritis, conduct research to
combat arthritis as well as to educate patients and the public
on arthritis. It has approximately one thousand members that
represent all walks of life that include those having
arthritis, caregivers as well as those members that are
concerned with arthritis, as also health professionals. To
oversee the work of the foundation, there is an elected general
council as well as an executive committee.
In America, the Arthritis Foundation is a non-profit nationwide
health organization that takes greater control of arthritis
through taking efforts to prevent, control as well as cure
arthritis, which is the nation’s leading cause of disability.
In America, it has 500,000 volunteers as well as 150 service
points that offer many programs and services to help people
fight and take control of their arthritis. In addition, it
provides education and information through its in-depth
booklets and books detailing how to cope and live with
arthritis.
From 1948 up to the present, the Arthritis Foundation has
pumped in more than three hundred million dollars on research
and supports over two thousand scientists, physicians as well
as health professionals that lead the way in cutting edge
arthritis research. With an estimated seventy million Americans
suffering from arthritis, the Foundation also ensures that
public policy as well as advocacy efforts are introduced and
passed to support its vision.
Since arthritis is the leading cause of disability in America,
it is little wonder that the Arthritis Foundation has a stated
mission to prevent as well as cure arthritis as well as its
related diseases. Through its magazine, Arthritis Today, which
is published six times in a year, it sends the message across
loud and clear – arthritis is to be checked and defeated
without sparing any effort.
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