The Alice Kilvert Tampon Alert (ATKA) was established in March 1993. Its aim is to raise awareness of the possibility of developing Toxic Shock Syndrome during tampon use and to offer support to women who have survived and to bereaved families. It was the sudden death of Alice Kilvert on 26 November 1991 in Manchester (UK) from tampon-related TSS that caused her family and friends to take this action. Alice was only 15 years old when she died. During the late 1980s a small, but significant number of cases of tampon-related TSS cases had been reported in the press in the UK. A new environmental campaigning group called Women’s Environmental Network began to collect information on TSS as part of their research into all sanitary protection, and a small group of concerned families worked with WEN to campaign for a Tampon Safety Bill and to provide support for others. With help from WEN, Alice’s family and friends founded AKTA and launched their new video on the first Tampon Alert Day – June 8th 1993 – Alice’s 17th birthday. Since then AKTA have been involved in successful conferences and building strong supportive links. Their website contains a leaflet about the dangers of tampon-related toxic shock syndrome, case studies, and a page providing medical research information, as well as other related information. For further information, please follow the link to visit their website. We're sorry but <%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title %> doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
