JIA Awareness Week

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Awareness Week (JIA AW) is a campaign created by NRAS to raise awareness of the condition and eliminate misconceptions by educating and informing friends, family, schools, employers of those with JIA and the general population about what juvenile idiopathic arthritis truly is.

What is JIA Awareness Week?

The campaign is to raise awareness of the condition and eliminate these misconceptions by educating and informing friends, family, schools, employers of those with JIA and the general population about what juvenile idiopathic arthritis truly is. JIA is very different to osteoarthritis (OA) in that it can strike at any age under 16 and around half of those diagnosed each year will have it for life. It is an auto-immune disease, which is a key differentiating factor to OA and means that in addition to joints, it can affect organs such as the eyes. There are very serious consequences to getting a late diagnosis or a lack of targeted appropriate treatment.

JIA Awareness Week 2025

Our 2025 campaign will be running between 7th – 11th July. The campaign will be focusing on short educational videos covering various aspects of this condition, in hopes of raising awareness for all those living with JIA and AJIA.

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JIA Awareness Week 2024

Read about our #ThisIsJIA campaign from 2024, where the aim was to share real life stories about JIA and get our community opening up about all aspects of this invisible condition.

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JIA Awareness Week 2023

Read about our 2023 campaign, #BustingJIAMyths. The campaign aimed to “bust” the myths about this incurable, invisible condition, as well as introduced our #JIAMythBusterQuiz!

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JIA Awareness Week 2022

Our 2022 JIA Awareness Week campaign focused on the fluctuating condition that JIA is and no two days are the same living with JIA. #SameJIADifferentDay

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