jscreen marks Tay-Sachs Awareness Month with two families’ stories
September is Tay-Sachs Awareness Month and jscreen, a national nonprofit public health initiative, is calling on individuals and couples to make reproductive carrier screening part of their family-building plans. The campaign is being championed by…
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Two families separated by twenty years share the same rare disease loss. Jscreen is using Tay-Sachs Awareness Month to push carrier screening as a standard step before pregnancy, not an afterthought. The personal stakes are clear: the organization's own leaders lost children to a condition that screening can detect. Watch whether this campaign shifts the conversation from grief to prevention in Jewish communities where carrier rates are highest.