103 STAT. 2594 PROCLAMATION 5891~- OCT. 27, 1988 Proclamation 5891 of October 27, 1988 National Adult Immunization Awareness Week, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation America does well to hold a national week of observance to remind citizens that the need for immmiization does not stop with childhood. Vaccine-preventable diseases continue to kill grown-ups in our Nation; as many as 70,000 adults die each year because they do not take ad- vantage of vaccines for influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, hepatitis B, tetanus, and other preventable infectious diseases. Even among people at greatest risk for complications—the elderly and the chronical- ly ill—fewer than one in five routinely receive aimual infiuenza vacci- nation and fewer than one in 10 have been vaccinated against pneiuno- coccal pneiunonia. Immunization with safe and effective vaccines can greatly reduce the tragic loss of life and reduce the massive costs associated with health care. The Siu^eon General of the United States has repeatedly urged adults to use appropriate preventive health-care practices, including vaccination for diseases preventable through immunization. We can all do our share in making sure we ourselves and members of our families know about and receive immunization, and that our neighbors and communities have the same opportunity. In recognition of the importance of adult immunization and of the bene- fits of public awareness, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 335, has designated the week beginning October 23, 1988, as "National Adult Immunization Awareness Week" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion. NOW. THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN. President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning October 23, 1988, as National Adult Immunization Awareness Week. I call upon all government agencies and the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sev- enth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two huoadred and thirteenth. RONALD REAGAN Proclamation 5892 of October 28, 1988 National AIDS Awareness and Prevention Montii, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation ^^ Nearly 75.000 Americans have been diagnosed as having the fatal dis- ease AIDS, and more than 41,000 have already died from it. The Public Health Service estimates that an additional one to one-and-a -half mil-
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