**Click here for the: List of autoimmune diseases.
**Virginia Ladd, president of AARDA, was recently interviewed by Dr. Bob Phillips, director of the Center For Coping, NY, on his radio show, Coping Conversations.
**Shopping online?? When you shop through an online retailer, please use one of these sites and a portion of the sale comes to us! Register at iGive, shop at your favorite store and choose us as your chosen organization. It is free for you, free for us, and you pay the same (or less!). With so much to do, why not couple your support for AARDA with your necessary shopping? Save money, save time, and send a donation to AARDA. What's better than that? That's multitasking at its very best! To support AARDA, use an online retailer like iGive. Check out our fundraising page
**AARDA is awarded Charity Navigator's coveted 4-star rating for sound fiscal management! Read the letter
**Do you have a workplace giving campaign? Please make AARDA a part of it! More...
**Information for you...The CDC has a website for information on H1N1.
**Please complete our short health care priorities survey and help AARDA help YOU! The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) wants to ensure that we are truly advocating for the issues that matter most to you -- autoimmune disease patients and your families. By taking less than 60 seconds to fill out this short survey you will be giving AARDA the information we need to ensure that your interests are represented in Congress for health care reform. Please RANK the priorities in order of importance. Click here for the survey
**Your help with advocacy is needed** AARDA needs every autoimmune patient, family member, and friend to contact their U.S. Representative in support of H.R. 2084, also called the "Prevention, Awareness, and Research of Autoimmune Diseases Act of 2009." This important legislation was introduced by Patrick J. Kennedy on April 23, 2009. Please go to our Advocacy Page for information on ways you can help.
**Autoimmune Patients and Families - Visit our online patient forum. More here: http://www.aarda.org/press_release_display.php?ID=49
**AARDA IN THE NEWS:
Know Your Family AQ -- AARDA's first-ever national public service (PSA) campaign title, "Know Your Family AQ," starring well-known acress and longtime AARDA spokesperson Kellie Martin may be on your TV! AQ is a play on IQ and stands for Autoimmune Quotient. How likely are you or a loved one to develop an autommune disease? It is designed to educate Americans about the existence of the close genetic relationship and common pathway of disease among autoimmune diseases, which helps explain the clustering of these diseases in individuals and throughout families. Click here www.aarda.org/videos.php for more information and advice for learning your family's AQ.
Men Get Autoimmune Diseases, Too -- This AARDA campaign, launched in April of 2008, consists of 30-second radio and television public service announcements and education materials designed to raise awareness about the fact that, while women are disproportionately affected, these diseases do not discriminate when it comes to gender. Specifically, the PSAs inform men about the importance of knowing their family AQ. Visit http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/aarda/32498/ to download all campaign elements.
