The Promise to Me initiative empowers women to make their health a priority by reminding them to schedule their own annual gynecologic exams and pass the reminder to friends. It’s a promise you make to yourself and a friendly reminder to keep it.
January is National Cervical Health Awareness Month, and Hologic partnered with the National Cervical Cancer Coalition to help uninsured women get their screenings. Many women who get cervical cancer aren’t routinely screened for the disease.
A simple way you can help in a snap:
For every woman who makes a promise, Hologic will donate $1 to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC) to fund cervical cancer screenings for uninsured women. Passing the promise to friends extends your ability to help even more.
Don’t think you need a reminder to schedule your annual exam? If you’re taking the pill, you might remember shortly before your prescription is about to run out, but some doctors get booked up several weeks in advance. That means you’d have to get a new refill over the phone, if possible, and then your annual exams and prescription refill times would be all off kilter! Yip, that happened to me once. Some insurance companies want you to have your annual exam no sooner than a year before your last one, but, of course, if health concerns come up, you’d visit your doc immediately.
So, maybe you just never, never, ever forget to schedule your appointment. Well, maybe your friends do! After you sign up (just your name and email address), you have the opportunity to also send the message to friends who may need the reminder. The whole process takes under a minute. I did it as I was writing this post.
Even if you and all of your friends are super organized and don’t need reminders emailed to you, just make the promise anyway to do your part in helping to fund cervical cancer screenings for uninsured women. It’s totally free, and the only email you’ll receive is related to the initiative. Plus, you can unsubscribe whenever you want.
PS – At Promise to Me, you may also sign up for a reminder to get your mammogram.
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