More than 2 million French people are affected by psoriasis, chronic skin disease. Although psoriasis is not contagious, nearly 83% of patients hide their disease and 26% say they have experienced at least one episode during which the people around them made a conscious effort not to touch them.
Also, to fight the misconceptions about the disease, and as a preamble to World Psoriasis Day, on October 29, the Association for the Fight against Psoriasis is launching a national information tour called ” Psoriasis: get in touch »In 4 French cities: Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseille.
On the program of this mini-tour which started this weekend and which will end on October 13 in Marseille: information workshops, meetings with patients suffering from psoriasis and… “hug parties”, that is, i.e. friendly hugs with passers-by to combat discrimination because the symptoms of psoriasis (red patches, skin lesions) frequently cause a rejection movement . ” The other, the one who is different, threatens us very often and scares us, leading to exclusion, stigmatization »Explains Doctor Sylvie Consoli, dermatologist and psychoanalyst in Paris.
Psoriasis: the tour in practice
The “Psoriasis, get in touch” tour bus will be present from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm:
Tuesday October 9 in Bordeaux – Place Stalingrad
Wednesday October 10 in Toulouse – Esplanade François Mitterrand
Saturday 13 October in Marseille – Escale Borely
All information about this tour on the website www.fidupso.fr