Arkansas Code Title 1. General Provisions § 1-5-116. Hemophilia Awareness Day

(1) Hemophilia is the name of several hereditary genetic illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding;

(2) Hemophilia is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable bleeding caused by missing or low-level clotting factor in the blood;

(3) Hemophiliac bleeding may occur even when a sufferer has sustained no injury;

(4) Hemophiliac bleeding most often occurs in the joints and in the head;

(5) Approximately twenty thousand (20,000) citizens nationwide are suffering from hemophilia, and one (1) in each five thousand (5,000) live male births in the United States results in hemophilia;

(6) Hemophilia affects males almost exclusively, affecting one in five thousand (1 in 5,000) males;

(7) Hemophilia occurs in all demographic groups;

(8) There is no cure for hemophilia; and

(9) Hemophilia is a lifelong condition that can be controlled with regular injections of the deficient clotting factor.