The World Stroke Proclamation was launched on October 26, 2006 at the Joint World Congress on Stroke in Cape Town, South Africa, in collaboration with the WHO and World Federation of Neurology, to focus attention on stroke as a preventable and treatable disease.

The Annual World Stroke Day has been established as the 29th October.

World stroke Day is a day with a message for every day:
STROKE IS A TREATABLE AND PREVENTABLE CATASTROPHE

The World Stroke Day is an excellent opportunity to turn visions into practice in a wide range of formats like campaigns towards the general population, press releases and invitations to interviews and features in mass media. Visibility is important and now is the opportunity to act.

The theme for the World Stroke Day 2008 is “Little strokes, big trouble”.
“Silent” strokes are by far the most common type of strokes. Recent studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of “silent” stroke as determinants for overt stroke, other vascular events, cognitive decline and dementia. The early prevention of subclinical and clinical vascular disease in the brain is essential and of major concern for the general health of the population.

The motto of the WSO is “The voice for stroke” - let the voice of the society resound on this years’ World Stroke Day October 29!

National and regional stroke societies are encouraged to celebrate World Stroke Day with endorsement from the WSO.

The WSO Administrative office would gratefully receive brief reports from your activities performed on October 29 to serve as inspiration for others and for the future.

The World Stroke Day proclamation and an accompanying Editorial on this years’ theme are available at http://stroke.ahajournals.org/

World Stroke Day brochure – click here to download the pdf document