These diseases, and especially the continuing AIDS pandemic, are taking a frightening toll on young men. A central focus of the MHN will be information dissemination on cancer, heart disease and other serious diseases which predominantly affect men. Working with its coalition members and other leading health care providers, the MHN will prepare detailed information brochures and focus media attention on these leading killers of men. It will compile a comprehensive registry of doctors and clinics specializing in the treatment of male-specific cancers and related diseases. Finally, MHN attorneys will actively seek greater participation by both national and state health agencies in educating men about male specific diseases and disorders and for expending appropriate resources for research to find cures for these deadly diseases.
Workplace accidents kill thousands of men each year.
Unfortunately, the priority given to workplace accident prevention by government and many businesses is low. As an example, the U.S. government currently employs six times as many wildlife and fisheries inspectors as it does work safety inspectors. The MHN will work actively to increase the number of monitors of workplace safety and work cooperatively with the businesses which employ men in dangerous jobs so that preventative measures can be taken to increase job safety. Saving men's lives must become a national priority.