We are the Global Osteoporosis Foundation and our goal is to raise awareness of the causes of diminished bone health and to demonstrate that osteoporosis is a very common but entirely preventable and reversible disease. In the few seconds, it has taken you to start reading this page, someone somewhere in the world has had a broken bone that has been caused by osteoporosis.

Every three seconds as you continue to read, another person will suffer an osteoporosis fracture causing pain, incapacity, and potentially life-limiting illness and injury.