This December, Rotary Disease Treatment and Prevention Month, gain inspiration to take action to fight and prevent disease in your community by:
- Supporting health education programs that explain how diseases are spread, and promoting ways to reduce the risk of transmission;
- Partnering with medical institutions or ministries of health to help immunize people against infectious diseases;
- Supporting continued education and training for health workers through scholarships, stipends, and public recognition;
- Improving and expanding access to affordable health care in under-served areas.
Enhance your existing disease prevention and treatment projects
Expand your disease prevention and treatment project with guidance from a Rotarian Action Group! 16 of 26 Rotarian Action Groups (RAGs), which consult on club and district-led humanitarian efforts, specialize in a concentration within disease prevention and treatment. Contact a RAG for help starting or expanding a project in your community, or for opportunities to support related international efforts. Here are eight of the many RAGs that address health issues:
- Alzheimer's/Dementia RAG: They provide information and support to Rotarians on dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Members use their knowledge, experience and leadership to fight Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
- RAG for Blindness Prevention: This RAG helps prevent blindness and promotes eye health and vision worldwide.
- RAG of Dental Volunteers: These volunteers provide humanitarian dental service throughout the world.
- RAG for Diabetes: This RAG provides has commitment to education, identification, and treatment of diabetes. They are especially concerned about diabetes among children in developing countries. They work with the International Diabetes Federation.
- Rotarians for Hearing RAG: These Rotarians promote hearing help for children and adults with hearing loss.
- RAG on Mental Health Initiatives: The mission of RAGMHI is to act as a worldwide resource for Rotarians in the field of mental health and mental illness to promote, protect, restore, and to help re-build the lost human capital to make a happier and healthier world.
- RAG for Multiple Sclerosis Awareness: These Rotarians work to make people aware of MS and improve the lives of People with MS.
- Polio Survivors and Associates RAG: These Rotarians are dedicated to permanently ending polio. They focus on improving the health and well-being of polio survivors.
Do you have a passion in one of these areas? Can you contribute your knowledge, skills and expertise to one of these RAGs? Check it out today. This is another way in which we can.