Saturday May 10th was the Global Lupus Awareness Day
We closed off with Susan van der Walt - From the Eagles Flight Ministry
to tell us more about Lupus. Saturday May 10th
was the Global Lupus Awareness Day. It is a united awareness campaign by lupus
organizations around the world as it’s estimated that f ive million or more people
worldwide suf f er f rom lupus. Lupus is a
chronic autoimmune disease that can af f ect various parts of the body including the
skin, joints, heart, lungs, blood, kidneys and brain which of ten attacks young women of childbearing age, but
individuals of any age or gender can
develop lupus. World Lupus Day f ocuses on the need f or heightened public
awareness, improved patient healthcare services, increased research into the
causes of and a cure f or lupus, enhanced
physician diagnosis and treatment of lupus, and better
epidemiological data on lupus globally. For f urther inf ormation go to www.eaglesflightministry.co.za
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