World Lupus Day
Awareness Toolkit
Access the World Lupus Day Toolkit to help you raise awareness, share your story, and take action on May 10. Explore ready-to-use resources, social graphics, and messaging to amplify your voice and support the global lupus community.
Lupus is a complex autoimmune disease affecting millions worldwide, with no known cure and often devastating impacts on daily life. Each year on May 10, communities across the globe unite for World Lupus Day to raise awareness, advocate for better care, and support those living with lupus. Led by the World Lupus Federation, this day highlights a shared global challenge.
Make Lupus Visible
The theme for World Lupus Day 2026 is Make Lupus Visible. Too often, lupus remains unseen—its symptoms misunderstood and its impact overlooked. Which is why, this May 10, we’re calling on the world to make lupus visible and ensure no one faces this disease in silence.
Awareness & Advocacy Tools
Tools for World Lupus Day advocacy.
Contact your local officials today to request lighting a landmark, monument, or building purple on May 10 for World Lupus Day.
Reach out to local elected officials to recognize World Lupus Day and help raise awareness of lupus.
Make Lupus Visible by taking the Know Lupus quiz. Test your knowledge and challenge friends and family on social media.
Understanding lupus symptoms is key to raising awareness and reducing time to diagnosis. Use the symptoms checklist to recognize common signs and risk factors early.
Join the call to improve lupus care worldwide. Advocate for timely diagnosis and access to the right treatment, and help raise awareness to ensure everyone with lupus gets the care they need, when they need it.
World Lupus Day Logos
Show support with by sharing the World Lupus Day logo.
Logo with May 10 date
Logo without Date
Before World Lupus Day
Take action NOW and in the weeks before World Lupus Day by using the tools and materials below so that we can bring as much attention as possible to World Lupus Day on May 10.
Spanish Graphics
Customizable Blank Templates
Stay tuned for the 2026 customizable blank templates!
On World Lupus Day – May 10, 2026
There are several ways that you can join people from all over the globe raising lupus awareness on World Lupus Day, including:
- Join the global lupus community to share your lupus story on social media, and post images of our lupus facts along with sample messages located on this toolkit webpage. Use the hashtags #WorldLupusDay and #MakeLupusVisible
- Wear your favorite purple items, and share photos on social media
- Make a statement by lighting up a building or significant landmark in your town to be illuminated in the color purple
English/EU graphics
Spanish graphics
Sample Social Media Posts
Today is #WorldLupusDay — when we all take a moment to show support for the millions affected by lupus. It’s easy to raise lupus awareness! Wear purple and share lupus facts from our toolkit at WorldLupusDay.org/tool-kit #MakeLupusVisible
Show your support for those affected by #lupus TODAY by sharing facts about lupus and proudly wearing your purple for #WorldLupusDay #MakeLupusVisible WorldLupusDay.org/tool-kit
Did you know? Steroids are a common treatment for lupus but have side effects. It’s crucial to manage them effectively and support ongoing research for more treatments. This #WorldLupusDay let’s raise awareness of the need for more treatments for #lupus.
Visit WorldLupusDay.org/tool-kit for more facts & resources! #MakeLupusVisible