What color ribbons mean?

Red and Yellow: Hepatitis C, HIV/HCV Co-Infection, surviving family members of suicide victims. Red, Yellow and Blue: all forms of Trisomy. Silver and Blue: Corpus Callosum. Teal and Purple: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault. Teal and White: Cervical Cancer.

What are the different color ribbons for diseases?

What is a purple ribbon for?

The purple ribbon is most commonly used to raise awareness for animal abuse, Alzheimer's disease, domestic violence, epilepsy, lupus, sarcoidosis, Crohn's disease and pancreatic cancer.

What are the military color ribbons?

The Veterans Awareness Ribbon, or "Blood Ribbon" was created to bring awareness to all veterans causes. The blue in the ribbon represents all military veterans that have served our country. The red in the ribbon represents the blood that has been shed by the men and women who have defended this great nation.

What do purple and yellow ribbons mean?

Purple and Yellow Awareness Causes

Autoimmune Hepatitis. Chemical Injuries. Lupus and Endometriosis. Progressive Feminism.

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What is an orange ribbon for?

Multiple Sclerosis and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) awareness both use orange ribbons. Kidney cancer and leukaemia both use orange awareness ribbons. It is also used in November for COPD Awareness Month.

What does a lilac ribbon mean?

A light purple or lavender ribbon often is used to represent all cancers as a whole. Sometimes, many different ribbons are combined together to represent all cancers. Uncommon or rare cancers may be represented by a black-and-white zebra print ribbon.

What are the three basic ribbons Army?

All soldiers who successfully graduate Army basic training have earned the right to wear three ribbons: the Army Service ribbon, the Global War on Terror ribbon and the National Defense Service ribbon.

What ribbon do you get after basic?

Officers: After successfully completing their basic/orientation or higher level course an officer will be awarded the Army Service Ribbon.

What is the blue ribbon for?

Blue. The most common symbol of the blue ribbon is to show support for child abuse and prevention. The ribbon color also represents anti-bullying, sex slavery awareness, and addiction recovery awareness.

What does the yellow ribbon mean?

The yellow ribbon is an emblem for suicide prevention awareness, particularly for young people, and is used for suicide prevention awareness in many countries including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

What does a green ribbon stand for?

The green ribbon is the international symbol for mental health awareness. Wear a green ribbon to show colleagues, loved ones or simply those you walk past that you care about their mental health. It can also be worn in memory of a loved one.

What is the color for depression awareness?

For millions of people, a green ribbon represents another devastating illness -- depression. October is also Depression Awareness Month.

What illness is the yellow ribbon?

A yellow ribbon represents sarcoma or bone cancer. There are several types of bone cancer. Sarcoma can affect the bones or it can affect the connective tissues in the body, such as the cartilage or myofascial tissue.

What is the PTSD ribbon?

The teal ribbon brings awareness and support to PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

What color represents PTSD?

PTSD Awareness is represented by the color teal.

What is the ADHD ribbon?

Orange is the color of ADHD Awareness. That's our ribbon.

What do the colored ribbons on military uniforms mean?

Colored ribbons, also called bars due to their firm attachment to an underlying bar, distinguish higher ranking officers and are displayed on both the left and right side of the outer jacket of a dress uniform. Dress uniforms are typically worn only at specific ceremonies.

What do the military ribbons mean?

Military medals can recognize bravery or gallantry, heroism, or meritorious service. They may be awarded for actions during peacetime or war, in defense of civilians or fellow service members, and they can be earned for actions taken during the course of combat or outside of direct military conflict.

What ribbons do you get out of basic training?

As of June 2018, when you complete Army boot camp, you receive two service awards, the Army Service Ribbon and the National Defense Service Medal.

What does a pink ribbon stand for?

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October and throughout the year—people wear pink ribbons to honor survivors, remember those lost to the disease, and to support the progress we are making together to defeat breast cancer.

What does lime green ribbon mean?

Lime green ribbons raise awareness for childhood mental illness, childhood depression, and childhood mood disorders. Lime green awareness ribbons also show support for the following medical conditions: Lyme disease. Muscular dystrophy. Maternal mental health.

What is the red ribbon stand for?

The red ribbon is a symbol for Multiple Sclerosis, drunk driving prevention, drug prevention and for the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Red Ribbon Foundation, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the Canadian Multiple Sclerosis Society are examples of organizations that utilize the red ribbon symbol.