Advocacy Priorities
Advocacy Priorities for improving the lives of people with arthritis.
Follow the links to find more background information and sample letters you can send to Congress urging action:
- Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act
- Health Care Reform
- Follow-On Biologics
- Funding Arthritis Research
- Arthritis Prevention
- Send a letter to your members of Congress
This list in no way encompasses all of the areas for legislative action. That's why we welcome your ideas for enhancing the arthritis advocacy agenda. Send your thoughts to advocacy@arthritis.org.
Recent Testimony Submitted in Support of our Funding Priorities
The Arthritis Foundation recently submitted testimony to the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittees in support of our funding priorities for the federal fiscal year 2010. The Arthritis Foundation requests $500 million for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health; support for a national network of cooperating clinical centers for the care and study of children with arthritis; and $23 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s arthritis program to help prevent and control arthritis.
Testimony of Mikayla Minnig, I0-years-old, about living with Juvenile Arthritis
Mikayla testified before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education on March 18, 2009. Mikayla’s spoken testimony focused on her story on behalf of the nearly 300,000 other children with JA.
