If you’re healthy and well, you can enjoy what matters to you most, be it school, work, play, life, or love! Vaccines have greatly reduced or eliminated many infectious diseases that once routinely killed or harmed infants, children and adults. However, the viruses and bacteria that cause these diseases still exist, and you can still get these diseases if you aren’t vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s why TMA Foundation made the Texas Medical Association’s Vaccines Defends What Matters possible this year thanks to generous donations from H-E-B, TMF Health Quality Institute and other contributors.
This integrated, multimedia public health education and advocacy effort supported 16 grants to county medical societies, TMA Alliance chapters, TMA medical student chapters, and TMA member-physician practices/clinics to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccination rates in Texas, particularly in areas of greatest need. Read about how these grants got more Texans back to “what matters!” You can support the 2022 VDWM campaign with a year-end, tax-deductible donation.
Last Updated On
November 12, 2021
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November 12, 2021