Aflac Stories

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Videos from this campaign

Aflac 2024 Holiday Duck.
My Special Aflac Duck delivery to a pediatric patient at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx.
Wellness Matters: Dean Holmes.
Wellness Matters: Dean Holmes.
Wellness Matters: Dean Holmes.
Young girl shown holding her Aflac Duck.
Legendary Coach Dawn Staley helps give sickle cell patients a voice with My Special Aflac Duck.
Nigel Graham sitting in a firetruck
Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami.
Grant Gossling.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aflac Employees Add Creative Spice to 2024 Holiday Duck
This year’s Aflac Holiday Duck holds extra special meaning for two employees whose spicey idea helped spark the 2024 theme. Dressed as a holiday baker complete with a festive plaid apron and baker’s hat, this year’s collectible plush holds in its wings a gingerbread man cookie.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice: Introducing the 2024 Aflac Holiday Duck
For Ellen Hansen of Madison, Mississippi, the holiday season isn’t complete until she’s added the year’s Aflac Holiday Duck to her collection. Her tradition started with the first Aflac Holiday Duck in 2001 and now, 23 years later, her ducks are on permanent display.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Cookie-ing up a Happy Holiday Season: Do Good Powered by Aflac
The journey after a cancer diagnosis often involves juggling schedules, managing treatment plans and trying to glean as much information about what comes next as possible — not to mention the emotions that one must process.

Health & Healthcare

Ways to Play and Learn With My Special Aflac Duck®
The journey after a cancer diagnosis often involves juggling schedules, managing treatment plans and trying to glean as much information from health care providers as possible — not to mention the emotions that one must process.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

My Special Aflac Duck® Lands in the Big Apple
In September — honoring Childhood Cancer and Sickle Cell Awareness Month — My Special Aflac Duck® found its way to New York City, delivering smiles to pediatric cancer and sickle cell patients at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx.

Health & Healthcare

Don’t Wait: Advocate
Wellness checkups are excellent tools for staying on top of your health — especially routine screenings that can help detect certain diseases, like cancer, early and before they’ve had a chance to spread.

Health & Healthcare

How You Can Lend a Hand When It’s Needed Most
September is National Childhood Cancer and National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month. Sadly, nearly 10,000 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and about 1 in every 365 Black or African American babies in the U.S. are born with sickle cell disease.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

My Special Aflac Duck® Goes To Camp
When you hear the phrase, “the joys of childhood,” it may evoke memories of chasing butterflies in the backyard, baking cookies with grandma or maybe a crafts table stacked high with items handmade with love.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Legendary Coach Dawn Staley Helps Give Sickle Cell Patients a Voice With My Special Aflac Duck®
When your view of the world is through the lens of a disease that can often cause pain and require more frequent doctor visits, finding comfort is imperative. That is a reality for the approximately 100,000 Americans impacted by sickle cell disease.

Health & Healthcare

Routine Matters: How a Regular Wellness Exam Helped Identify Prostate Cancer Early
Personal health and fitness have always been important to Nigel Graham — volunteer firefighter, Northern Ireland native, Spartan® race veteran and key member of the Aflac flock in Columbia, South Carolina.

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