More than 2 million French people are affected by psoriasis, a 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 people around them made a conscious effort not to touch them.
Also, to combat myths about the diseaseand 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 cities in France: 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 as the symptoms of psoriasis (red patches, skin lesions) frequently cause a rejection movement . ” The other, the one who is different, very often threatens us and frightens us, inducing a setting aside, a 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 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.:
Tuesday 9 October in Bordeaux – Place Stalingrad
Wednesday October 10 in Toulouse – Esplanade François Mitterrand
Saturday October 13 in Marseille – Escale Borely
All information about this tour on the website www.fidupso.fr
