US EditionLe lupus de l’enfant à travers les âges
- World Lupus Day on May 10, 2025, highlighted the chronic autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus worldwide, including Nigeria.
- Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disorder in which the body’s defense system mistakenly targets and damages its own healthy cells and organs; its exact causes are not fully understood but likely involve a combination of genetic, environmental, and hormonal influences.
- Public figures like Selena Gomez and Halsey have raised awareness by sharing their lupus diagnoses and treatment journeys openly.
- The Gift Lupus Foundation urged Nigeria to improve care access, data collection, and subsidize medications, stressing that “awareness without action is not enough.”
- These efforts aim to reduce misdiagnosis and improve quality of life for lupus patients, particularly women aged 18 to 45, in underserved areas.
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This year, the Association of Rheumatic Disease Patients of Serbia (ORS) will celebrate World Lupus Day under the slogan "Let's make lupus visible". On this occasion, the ORS Association organized a round table in Belgrade today on the topic of systemic lupus erythematosus (SEL), a rare autoimmune disease that affects about 3,000 citizens in Serbia.
This Saturday, May 10 is remembered as World Lupus Day, a date that seeks to make visible a complex disease that affects people of any age, especially women of childbearing age. World Lupus Day: stress, use of hormones and smoking, are some triggers. Photo: Illustrative In this regard, Dr. María Isabel Acosta, a medical specialist in Rheumatology at the FCM-UNA, Hospital de Clínicas, gave more details of this pathology that, although rare, has a…
Proper diagnosis, timely treatment can cure lupus: Expert
Bhubaneswar, May 10: Awareness about Lupus, an auto-immune disease which mostly afflicted women of child bearing age, is the key to battle the disease.To spread this message, a rally was taken out here by the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of SOA Deemed to be University, on Saturday to mark the World Lupus Day.The rally in which doctors, nurses, studen…
Gift Foundation Seeks More Govt Support For Lupus Patients
The founder of Gift Lupus Foundation (GLF), Dr Nguumbur Lovette Ikongo, was at Sahad Hospital in Abuja on Saturday to mark the International Day for Lupus with a patient in critical condition. During the visit, she appealed to the government at all levels to support people living with lupus conditions, saying “My concern and passion for patients living with lupus started several years ago when I lost a sister to the condition.” The World Lupus D…
World Lupus Day: Here are some celebrities who shine a light on an invisible illness
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Casper Libero chapter. On May 10th, World Lupus Day is celebrated. This date is important because it raises awareness about one of the most serious autoimmune conditions: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). According to the Lupus Foundation of America, lupus is a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues instead of fighting infections. Even though the ca…
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