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Contact: Cindy Hoang, National Consumers League, (202) 207-2832, cindyh@nclnet.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Washington, DC\u2014January 19 marks the launch of the fifth annual Medication Adherence Team Challenge, a two-month-long intercollegiate competition among health profession student teams and faculty for creating solutions to raise awareness about medication adherence as a critical public health issue. The Challenge, coordinated by the National Consumers League (NCL), America\u2019s pioneer consumer group and the lead organization on the national Script Your Future<\/em> campaign, is returning to university campuses across the country after four years of successful student innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Challenge is part of Script Your Future<\/em>, a campaign launched by the National Consumers League and partners in 2011 to combat the problem of poor medication adherence in the United States, where nearly three out of four patients do not take their medication as directed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that, by working together, health care professionals can help patients take their medications as directed in order to preserve and improve their health. The Challenge embraces this principle behind improving medication adherence and lays the foundation for adherence-minded care delivery among students before they enter the workforce,\u201d said Sally Greenberg, NCL Executive Director. \u201cWe have been so impressed by the creativity and dedication of our student teams in previous years and look forward to seeing what this year\u2019s Challenge will contribute to the discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n The Challenge is sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).<\/p>\n From January 19 through March 18 inter-professional teams\u2014including student pharmacists, nurses, doctors, and others\u2014will implement outreach with creative approaches in their communities to raise awareness and improve understanding about medication adherence, using Script Your Future<\/em>. At the end of the Challenge, select schools and their teams will be recognized nationally for their efforts to improve medication adherence.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Script Your Future<\/em> Adherence Challenge has provided a tremendous opportunity for health professions students to illustrate how they can work collaboratively to improve patient care through better medication adherence,\u201d said Dr. Lucinda L. Maine, Executive Vice President and CEO at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. \u201cThis challenge, now in its fifth year, provides a great example of the power health professions teams can have on medication adherence.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the Challenge began in 2011, more than 6,000 future health care professionals have directly counseled more than 22,000 patients and reached more than nine million consumers in this concerted public effort about the importance of medication adherence. Last year\u2019s National awardees were the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. The Focused awardees were the University of Charleston School of Pharmacy (Health Disparities), the Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Pharmacy (NEOMED) (Media), and the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy (Creative Inter-Professional Event).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n To learn more about last year\u2019s winners visit the Script Your Future<\/em> website.<\/a><\/p>\n For more information on the Challenge visit the Challenge Community website at\u00a0https:\/\/syfadherencechallenge.ning.com\/<\/a>. Tweet along with us during the Challenge using #SYFchallenge and follow the campaign @IWillTakeMyMeds.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n Script Your Future is a campaign of the National Consumers League (NCL), a private, non-profit membership organization founded in 1899.<\/em> <\/em>NCL\u2019s mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad<\/em>.<\/em> <\/em>For more information about the Script Your Future campaign, visit <\/em>www.ScriptYourFuture.org<\/em><\/a>. 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