Pennsylvania Rare Disease Day

Pennsylvania Rare Disease Day empowers rare disease patients and their caregivers, and recognizes the specific challenges affecting this community in their access to care. This event raises awareness of the unique policy obstacles affecting rare disease patients and their families, and is a chance to educate and inform our legislators and administration officials on how they can most effectively work together for better outcomes throughout the Commonwealth.

Rare disease patients throughout Pennsylvania are faced with unique, often life-threatening challenges every day. Of the nearly 10,000 rare diseases in the US, only a few hundred have any established treatment.