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World Scleroderma Day

World Scleroderma Day is held on June 29. This event in the third decade of the month June is annual.

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The purpose of the action is to raise awareness and sensitize the world community and the medical community to the issues of early diagnosis, treatment and research of scleroderma, and to show solidarity with scleroderma patients.

June 29 is a day to recognize the courage of people living with scleroderma and to call for equal treatment and care for scleroderma patients worldwide. The choice of the day is not accidental, it coincides with the death of Paul Klee, the Swiss painter who suffered from the disease and who died on June 29, 1940.

Since 29 June 2009 we have been celebrating a day to commemorate this rare autoimmune disease, which affects 3 people out of every 100,000 inhabitants. At first, the day was celebrated as European Scleroderma Day. Since 2010, however, it has become a global initiative as countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia and other South American countries have joined this European initiative.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

International Body Piercing Day on June 28;

World Industrial Design Day on June 29;

Roman Pontiff Day on June 29;

International Day of Parliamentarism on June 30 (A/RES/72/278);

Social Media Day on June 30;

Obstetrics and Gynecology Day in Peru on June 30;

International Tartan Day on July 1 (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events);