AAHKS Signs CDC Arthritis Funding Letter to Congress

This week AAHKS joined the Arthritis Foundation and many other medical and public organizations in writing to the Congressional Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, Committee on Appropriations, urging them to provide funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the Fiscal Year 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill. The letter requests $10 billion for the CDC and $54 million of that the CDC Arthritis Program in the Division of Population Health to fully operationalize a National Arthritis Program, promote awareness and invest in data, intervention and prevention research around arthritis. For more information, please read the letter.