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World Vitiligo Day

Loss of color in the skin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

World Vitiligo Day, observed annually on June 25, is a global campaign dedicated to raising awareness of vitiligo and supporting those affected by the condition. Vitiligo affects approximately 1 percent of the global population and is characterized by the loss of skin pigmentation, resulting in distinctive white patches that may appear asymmetrically on the body. Misconceptions about the condition remain widespread, and its social and psychological impact on individuals can be significant.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “World Vitiligo Day” as loss of color in the skin. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where World, Vitiligo and Loss can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as loss of color in the skin. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “World Vitiligo Day” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.