JIA Awareness Week 2024

#ThisisJIA is our JIA AW 2024 campaign, taking place from 15th- 21st July. The social media campaign aims to raise awareness of how JIA, although a disease diagnosed during childhood, can impact those affected by the disease in so many different ways, at varying stages of life.

#ThisIsJIA

JIA Awareness Week was launched in 2022 in order to raise awareness of the condition by educating and informing friends, family and the general population about what Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is and the affect it can have on people’s lives. Our previous campaigns #SameJIADifferentDay (2022) and #BustingJIAMyths (2023) proved to be a huge success thanks to the involvement of so many of the JIA community, and this year we hope to make it even bigger and spread the word even further!

This year’s campaign, #ThisIsJIA, aims to raise awareness of how JIA, although a disease diagnosed during childhood, can impact those affected by the disease in so many different ways, at varying stages of life. We are going to be sharing the stories of children, young people, parents, adults, siblings and indeed anyone affected by JIA on our website and across our social media platforms by way of video and written blogs; and in doing so, we hope to create a sense of shared experience and community as well as inform and educate a wider audience.

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#ThisIsJIA Stories

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#ThisIsJIA by Haider Khan

Everyday is different for us. Some days she will feel alright whilst other days things are more challenging for her, especially when she has a flare, which stops her from walking for too long or doing simple tasks without feeling a sharp pain in her joints, which makes the most basic things such as going […]

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#ThisIsJIA by Gail Molyneaux

This is JIA. Initial treatment, as it was limited at the time, involved steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs, and a diligent exercise regime encouraged by my supportive dad through small bribes despite my pain. The inflammation was difficult to control, requiring ankle callipers that led to teasing from other children. However, my family ensured I could still […]

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#ThisIsJIA by Helen Stanier

Being so young, I do not remember my initial diagnosis, but my parents took me to the GP because my right knee was hot and swollen, I had difficulty walking and I cried a lot. Thankfully, the doctor diagnosed me quite quickly with JIA and referred me to a rheumatologist. Unfortunately, in the 1980s there […]

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#ThisIsJIA by Melody

Pre 2002 I was so full of life, I did Gymnastics, Netball, a bit of Cricket and I absolutely loved sports day, I ran the 200m every year! I caught the Flu in April 2002; I was quite poorly and lost my voice for about a week. Although I recovered from the flu, as the […]

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There are many ways for you to get involved:

Join our JIA-at-NRAS community by sharing with us your stories and experience of living with JIA and will post these on our website and across our social media platforms. For more information, email us at jia@nras.org.uk.