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The Immunization Partnership
The Immunization Partnership helps individuals, physicians, and others with an interest in immunization to make smart choices about protecting our community from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Vision: A community protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Mission: To eradicate vaccine-preventable diseases by developing and coordinating our community's resources through public and private partnerships.
To fulfill our mission, we advocate evidence-based public policy that supports high immunization rates, encourage the use of immunization registries, provide educational resources at no cost to individuals and healthcare providers, and promote a "medical home" for every individual.
PneumoACTION
http://www.preventpneumo.org/
The PneumoACTION mission is to improve child survival and health by accelerating the evaluation of and access to new life saving pneumococcal vaccines for the world's children. The PneumoACTION team is a small, dedicated team based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Meningitis Foundation of America
http://www.musa.org/
Founded and run by individuals who have first-hand experience with meningitis, Meningitis Foundation of America's main objectives are to help support sufferers of spinal meningitis and their families; provide information to educate the public and medical professionals about meningitis so that its early diagnosis and treatment will help save lives; and help support the development of vaccines and other means of treating and/or preventing meningitis.
The Becky Werner Meningitis Foundation
http://www.stampoutmeningitis.com/
The Becky Werner Meningitis Foundation was created to focus attention on meningitis education and awareness in the public and medical communities. The Foundation is committed to early prevention and diagnosis of meningitis, to support research for preventative vaccines and treatments for meningitis, and to support the sufferers of meningitis and their families.
MAK – Meningitis Awareness Key to prevention
www.MAKinfo.org
MAK is a nonprofit health education organization dedicated to increasing public awareness about meningococcal meningitis, its symptoms & transmission, debilitating effects, risks and prevention measures.
MAK was founded shortly after the death of MaryJo Aglubat Kwett in July 2000. It now includes several other people whose loved ones have been affected by meningitis.
MAK fulfills its mission by providing up-to-date information through our awareness presentations with adolescents & young adults as our primary target group. We support meningitis legislation, promote vaccination and collaborate with other organizations in the prevention of meningitis.
The J.A.M.I.E. Group – Joint Advocacy for meningococcal Information & Education
www.theJAMIEgroup.org
The JAMIE Group was formed by the family of Jamie Schanbaum who almost lost her life to meningococcal septicaemia. Their mission is to help Jamie tell her story and bring the dangers of meningitis and septicaemia to light.
Dylan McNeil Foundation
www.dylanmcneilfoundation.com
The Dylan McNeil Foundation is a small non-profit charitable organization formed by the family of Dylan McNeil who lost his battle with pneumococcal meningitis on May 13, 2009, one day shy of his second birthday. They are determined to inform others of the signs and symptoms, update parents on recent developments and news, support vaccines and immunisations and are dedicated to funding research.
