American Foundation for Preventive Medicine

The American Foundation for Preventive Medicine (AFPM), a nonprofit educational corporation, was granted a 501 (c) (3) status in 1987. The mission of the foundation is to administer and operate, educational, scientific, and medical programs that include the following:

• Publish/distribute medical/fitness information to health profession and lay public
• Support research and educational outreach program in medicine and nutrition
• Disseminate research results to general public
• Promote and support other activities/programs that will enhance the physical and emotional well-being of general public

Foundation projects include promoting health awareness campaigns to alert all women of childbearing age of the need for folate, a B vitamin, to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects; the use of lysine to help reduce/lessen outbreak of herpes; promotion of folic acid and B12 to help reduce homocysteine levels and reduce risk of cardiovascular disease among many others.

The American Foundation for Preventive Medicine¹s most recent project is the Neighborhood Heart Watch initiative.