May is Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month: Let’s #CrossOutCF for 100% of the CF Community
May is an important time of the year for us at Emily’s Entourage (EE). It marks Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Awareness Month, a time for the community to band together to spread awareness, advocate, share personal stories, and unite behind the mission of accelerating breakthroughs and a cure for 100% of the CF community!
The theme of EE’s CF Awareness Month campaign is “Cross Out CF,” signifying the urgent need to expand the progress in CF treatments and finish the job, ensuring that 100% of people with CF have a lifesaving therapy with nobody left behind. It speaks to the strength, solidarity, spirit, and power of the CF community — as individuals and especially when it comes together as a collective.
Each year, the “Cross Out CF” campaign evolves to reflect the latest at EE and within the CF community. This year, the campaign reflects new hope. In the past year, we have seen significant drug development progress for those in the final 10% of the CF community that do not benefit from existing mutation-targeted therapies. We’re seeing multiple therapies, including many that EE has helped create and advance, progressing to clinical trials.
For the first time ever, we have a clear line of sight to the finish line — to treatments with the potential to benefit 100% of people with CF.
At EE, that is our singular goal. And that is what CF Awareness Month is all about — banding together, celebrating our progress, doubling down on the urgent quest for more, elevating our stories and our voices, and forging forward like our lives depend on it. Because…. they do.
Get Social With Us!
Throughout May, we will be amplifying CF perspectives and voices — from people with CF, to family members, to researchers and physicians — demonstrating the incredible hope, strength, resilience, and diversity in our community.
On Mondays, we’ll #PaintTheWorldPurple spotlighting an array of amazing artists with CF and their work. On Tuesdays, the EE blog will feature voices from the CF community — an adult with CF, a family member of a person with CF, a researcher, and more — in the #CFStrong series. On Wednesdays, you’ll hear more about the important work and incredible progress happening at EE through our #EEupdates.
Then, we’ll turn to the science, introducing you to the researchers and physicians who are working tirelessly to develop fast breakthroughs for CF through #SciencEE on Thursdays. And to end the week — because CF month at its core is all about educating the world about CF and why we need treatments FAST — #FactFriday will focus on sharing more about CF and the critical need for treatments.
Get Involved
All month long, get ready to learn, feel connected, and be inspired as we work towards spreading the word and achieving our ultimate goal: fast breakthroughs and a cure for 100% of the CF community. To get there, we need your help spreading the word! Like a post, write a comment, or share the post to raise awareness and spread EE’s message far and wide!
Make sure to follow along on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and our blog — and if you haven’t already, please subscribe to our e-newsletter. You can join the conversation using the hashtag #CrossOutCF!
We have a clear line of sight to the finish, and it is up to us to get there, to achieve a future where we can all, 100% of the CF community, finally breathe easier — nobody left behind.
100% or bust. Let’s “Cross Out CF” once and for all!
Thank You to Our CF Awareness Month Sponsors
We want to thank our generous 2023 Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month campaign sponsors! Our efforts to cross out CF for 100% of the CF community are only possible because of the support of our devoted corporate sponsors.