World Haemophilia Day 2025 #WorldHemophiliaDay #WHD2025 #WeBleedToo
17 April 2025
On April 17, 2025, the global bleeding disorders community will come together to celebrate World Haemophilia Day. This year’s theme is “Access for all: Women and girls bleed too”.
Despite advances in medicine, diagnosis of women with bleeding disorders is frequently delayed & under recognised leading to delayed treatment, risk of iron deficiency & impact on quality of life.
If you have, or know someone, who has two or more of these symptoms:
• Easy or frequent bruising
• Experienced prolonged bleeding after surgery, dental extractions, or childbirth.
• Needed to seek help for nose bleeds.
• Experienced menstrual periods lasting 7 or more days, having to change sanitary products 2 hourly or more frequently, passing clots of £1 or larger, experiencing flooding or finding it just interferes with life & your overall wellbeing.
• Experienced bleeding in joints or muscles.
• Experienced bleeding into the brain.
• Passing blood in urine, stool or vomit.
Please consider completing this assessment tool and taking your findings to your GP & discussing.
The Sheffield Haemophilia & Thrombosis Centre is the recognised regional service for diagnosing & managing inherited & acquired bleeding disorders, if the self-assessment suggests testing, this is where you should be referred to for further assessment. If you have further questions about bleeding disorders you can reach out to the haemophilia centre via email sth.haemophiliacentre@nhs.net or by calling 0114 2713211.
More informatioand exciting stories!
Check out the BBC Breakfast piece on our very own award-winning Nurse, Cathy Harrison who is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the Sheffield Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre - Nursing Times' Nurse of the Year Award
The Haemophilia Society webpage for more information on living with a bleeding disorder
Please also take a look at our World Haemophilia Day and Von Willebrand Disease story from last year which highlights how patients’ quality of life has improved with support from the Sheffield Haemophilia Unit
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