If you are searching for help on lupus for yourself or someone you love, this site will be a tremendous help to you. Lupus can be a frightening, uncertain disease. Feeling scared and a bit lost is normal when you first hear the diagnosis…but there is more to having this disease than these feelings. The Lupus Alliance of America offers understanding and support, provides information and assists patients to get past “having lupus” and back to living. The Alliance, our affiliates and all of our activities are committed to people with lupus and helping them to address the effects of lupus.

Support and understanding are very important factors to the emotional and physical well being of people with lupus. The Lupus Alliance provides educational tools and training for its affiliates to enhance their patient services, support groups and make them more effective. Support groups are there for you when you need them and also will give you a place to help others. Our commitment is to help people with lupus succeed and survive lupus.

There is a huge amount of information on lupus on the web, in libraries and through your doctors. Don’t be discouraged. Being well educated on lupus is the best tool you can have to address life’s issues. The Alliance will provide and recommend the most proven, current and trusted information on new research, successful and experimental treatments, new and existing lupus organizations, tools for leading a healthy lifestyle and more. This information is presented in a clear and simple way so you can easily locate what’s most important
to you.