AFL-CIO Groups Highlight Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

[Omaha Steve]

My union (AFSCME) is 54% female btw.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/01/07/afl-cio-groups-highlight-cervical-cancer-awareness-month/

by Mike Hall, Jan 7, 2009

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and as part of its campaign to raise awareness about how to prevent this deadly disease, the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is teaming up with the Metropolitan Washington Council’s Community Services Agency (CSA) at one of the largest health and fitness expos in the nation.



The two groups will take part in the NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo in Washington, D.C., Jan 10-11 at the Washington Convention Center. The Expo—with more than 200 exhibits, health screenings, demonstrations and more—promotes good health and provides advice in making healthy lifestyle choices.

The CLUW/CSA exhibit will focus on cervical cancer prevention, women’s health and how unions can have an impact on women’s health by bargaining contracts with strong health care provisions. The first 1,000 visitors who show a union card or union label will receive a “Pearl of Wisdom” pin, symbol of a new cervical cancer awareness program set to launch later this month.

Carolyn Jacobson, director of CLUW’s Cervical Cancer Prevention Works, says cervical cancer can be prevented with proper preventive care. She points out that this year alone, 11,070 women will be diagnosed in the United States with cervical cancer and 3,870 will die of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.

In October, CLUW partnered with the National Council of Women’s Organization (NCWO) in an education campaign aimed to inform older women about the advances in cervical cancer screening technology and the importance of screening. For more information on that program, click here. For more on CLUW’s Cervical Cancer Prevention Works campaign, click here.

If you are going to be in the Washington, D.C., area this weekend and want to find out more about the Health and Fitness Expo, click here: http://www.nbcwashington.com/results/?keywords=health+and+fitness+expo&x=15&y=7

[midnight]

1. Thanks for this post.