2008 Aflac Bone Marrow Drive to Ensure Life
The need for bone marrow registrants is great. Individuals with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma must find a donor whose tissue type matches their own. Ideal candidates for a match are usually from the same ethnic background and race.
After learning about the touching story of Steve Karas and Matthew Welling, Aflac wanted to do something to help others find donors. In December 2008, Aflac working with the National Marrow Donor Program will conduct bone marrow drives across the country to help find matches. It is our hope is to register sales agents and employees so that more lives can be saved; just like little Matthew Welling.
To learn more about how Steve and Matthew’s lives are forever linked, please watch this inspiring video.
Watch what Dr. William G. Woods, Director of the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service, has to say about the need to increase bone marrow registration.
About Aflac
For more than 50 years, Aflac products have given policyholders the opportunity to direct cash where it is needed most when a life-interrupting medical event causes financial challenges. Aflac is the number one provider of guaranteed-renewable insurance in the United States and the number one insurance company in terms of individual insurance policies in force in Japan. Our insurance products provide protection to more than 40 million people worldwide. Aflac has been included in Fortune magazine's listing of America's Most Admired Companies for seven consecutive years and in Fortune magazine's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for nine consecutive years. Aflac has also been recognized three times by both Fortune magazine’s listing of the Top 50 Employers for Minorities and Working Mother magazine’s listing of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers. Aflac Incorporated is a Fortune 500 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AFL. To find out more about Aflac, visit aflac.com.
