Slideshare on disease awareness and education on a local personal level as well as on social media.

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Goal: Disease
Education &
Awareness
Ryan Maxwell

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Why do I care?
• Given the time of misinformation in media surrounding
COVID-19, my attention has been drawn to the accurate
representations of modern treatments and details
surrounding combatting diseases like HIV and AIDS.
• Promoting up to date information on prevention and
treatments for life threatening diseases that have
continual advances being made is at the forefront of the
public mind at this point in time.
• It benefits loved ones, public health and education, and
my own peace of mind. We’ve seen the effects of an
uninformed society, giving people accurate and
appropriate options is important.

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Appliance locally
• Information spread to local schools, updating
from the old 90s videos we all saw in health
class, which can support continual updating of
knowledge on potential threats to individuals.
• Encouraged recurring segment inclusions on
local news networks about any progressions
being made as well has statistical data. Think the
current updates about COVID but dialed back a
touch.
• Businesses, schools, other organizations
participating in seasonal updates on biggest
diseases to consider moving forward, the best
ways to combat them, and also the most notable
progressions against diseases at the current time.

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What can I do?
 Since the importance of combating these
diseases revolves around the spreading of
accurate and up to date information, I
personally could use my own resources on
social media to raise awareness to the latest
details.
 Volunteer, donate, and promote the events of
organizations like hiv.gov (https://www.hiv.gov/federal-
response/pepfar-global-aids/global-hiv-aids-organizations) to give
resources to those who are affected in my
area.
 Spreading awareness any way possible is the
best thing you can do.

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What can social media bring to the table?
 Growing amounts of content on social media sites
outside of just people you follow or your interests
mark potential for outreach in disease awareness.
Ads, algorithm suggestions, popular stories, etc.
show opportunity to slide in a PSA on disease
information.
 Snapchat sends out messages for
holidays/events, why can't they throw something
in a brief and informative way to their users?
Instagram influences the feeds for users, why not
drop a reference to a CDC account that people
could use to stay informed? The possibilities are
only limited by the willingness to make it happen.