The following activities took place in Sweden.

The Swedish Psoriasis Association meet Maria Larsson, Minister for Public Health, to ask her for support to addressing psoriasis at the global level in the World Health Organization, WHO.

That as a part of the global WPD campaign with the purpose to get WHO to recognize psoriasis as a severe chronic, non-communicable disease and include psoriasis in the WHO Strategy for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.

• Survey among psoriasis patients regarding Quality of life.
• Press release.
• Local activities in 40 cities: Open House, media contacts, local radio and TV program.
• Distribution of WPD Posters and letters to media, politicians, treatment centres, university hospitals etc
• WPD-Ads in newspapers in 26 cities.