Alabama Action Center

• Society volunteers advocated for a comprehensive smoke-free law and prevented a bill with major flaws from passing the Senate.
• The Society helped enact an expansion of the Breast and Cervical Treatment Act that allocates an additional $3.7 million for the program; $835,000 of state funds that will be matched by $2.9 million by the federal government.
• The Legislature appropriated $360,000 for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.
• The Legislature appropriated $90,000 for prostate cancer screening through the State Health Department.
• The Legislature recommended that Medicaid implement a comprehensive tobacco cessation; appropriated $1.4 million to allow Medicaid providers to write one additional brand name prescription monthly; requires coverage for breast prosthetic devices prescribed after a mastectomy;
• The Society helped enact a resolution urging the Centers for Disease Control to award grant to Health Department for creation of colorectal cancer screening program.
• Monitored a bill requiring the State Board of Health to provide information regarding human papillomavirus to parents or guardians of sixth grade female students.
• The Society helped enact a resolution that designated Minority Cancer Awareness Week.
• The Society helped enact a resolution congratulating the Deep South Network on their ten years of success in reducing or eliminating disparities in breast, cervical and colorectal cancer among Africans Americans.

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