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In 2012, 16 May was recognized as the official annual awareness day for hereditary angioedema (HAE).

The awareness day is called hae day :-) and it unites the international HAE community with 16 May as a focus for activities to raise awareness of HAE amongst the general public, healthcare professionals, healthcare decision-makers, and industry representatives.

HAE International (HAEi ), which is the global non-profit network of hereditary angioedema (HAE) patient associations around the world, has initiated an activity campaign each year to create a united focus for hae day :-) and for the HAE community to join.

In the first four years, the activity campaign of HAE International was to cover the world with smiles via selfies uploaded to a designated website for the awareness day: haeday.org.

In 2016, the activity campaign was updated to be more active and a ‘Global Walk’ activity campaign was launched.

For the 10th hae day :-) in 2021, HAEi launched a new activity campaign that included both physical and wellbeing activities, and not only walking as previous years. All activities would be converted into steps on the haeday.org website for a virtual walk around the world.

Lots of HAEi member organizations around the world take part in the awareness day and arrange awareness activities and events locally and nationally, and HAE patients and caregivers take part in the global activity campaigns via the haeday.org website. Category:Health awareness days