Make an Impact this Rare Disease Day by making 5 Rare Disease calls on your organization and communities behalf.

See below 5 calls with topics to address:

Say NO to cuts to NIH

Dial 202-224-3121 or look up who to call

Find your representative

Leave Voicemail:

• I am your constituent / I am a constituent of MY TOWN

• I support robust funding to the NIH

• Cutting NIH funding would affect me negatively because it would impact research in MY DISEASE which affects myself/family member/loved one The NIH indirect cost cuts harms research and patients and must be reversed immediately

• I would support only public servants who will not vote in favor of any legislation that reduces NIH funding.

  
  

Support National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Dial 202-224-3121 or look up who to call

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• I am your constituent / I am a constituent of MY TOWN

• NIH funds and conducts innovative rare disease research, without which rare diseases would go unstudied, and therapy development would be nearly impossible.

• Tell how this personally impacts your community

Support Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Dial 202-224-3121 or look up who to call

FFind your representative

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• I am your constituent / I am a constituent of MY TOWN

• FDA partners with rare disease researchers, patient communities, and medical product developers to advance the science of the design, development and evaluation of safe and effective treatments.

• Tell how this personally impacts your community

Support Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dial 202-224-3121 or look up who to call

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Leave Voicemail:

• I am your constituent / I am a constituent of MY TOWN

• CDC works to protect public health by conducting research, providing health information, and responding to health threats.

• Tell how this personally impacts your community