Awareness Day

World Multiple Sclerosis Day

May 30, 2026 Recurs yearly

People living with multiple sclerosis represented in supportive healthcare and community settings during awareness activities.

2026 Theme

My MS Diagnosis (Tagline: Navigating MS Together)

Campaign Representation

Officially represented by the Orange Ribbon.

Campaign Description

Led by the MS International Federation (MSIF) since 2009, World MS Day unites the global MS community (an estimated 2.9 million people affected) to share stories, raise awareness, and campaign for change, with activities spanning all of May into early June.

Theme Focus

The multi-year (2024–2026) theme: "My MS Diagnosis," with the tagline: "Navigating MS Together," advocates for early and accurate MS diagnosis worldwide, highlighting global barriers to diagnosis, sharing real patient stories and data, and calling for better clinician training and research investment in diagnostic tools.

Key Priorities

  • Early and accurate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
  • Reducing delays and barriers to diagnosis
  • Improving awareness of MS among healthcare professionals
  • Expanding access to appropriate neurological and specialist services
  • Helping people understand the diagnostic process and what an MS diagnosis means
  • Listening to and sharing the lived experiences of people with MS
  • Building informed and supportive communities
  • Improving access to treatment, rehabilitation and ongoing care after diagnosis
  • Supporting research and advances in MS diagnosis
  • Addressing inequalities in MS diagnosis and care globally
  • Reducing fear, uncertainty and isolation surrounding diagnosis
  • Strengthening collaboration among people with MS, healthcare professionals, researchers, advocates and policymakers

Key Concepts

  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Multiple sclerosis diagnosis
  • Neurological disease
  • Autoimmune disease
  • Demyelination and nerve damage
  • MS symptoms
  • Neurological assessment
  • MRI
  • Clinical criteria
  • McDonald criteria
  • MS relapse
  • Clinically isolated syndrome
  • Relapsing-remitting MS
  • Primary progressive MS
  • Secondary progressive MS
  • Neuroinflammation
  • Neurodegeneration.
  • Neurologist
  • Biomarkers
  • Lived experience
  • Rehabilitation
  • Disease-modifying therapies (DMTs)
  • Stigma

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