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Awareness Bracelet Colors and Causes
Information provided by Jane Myers - Published: 2010-05-26
Chart of silicone awareness ribbon colors showing the cause and/or health condition they denote.
Awareness bracelets carry embossed messages demonstrating the wearer's support of a cause or charitable organization. Today, many organizations use awareness bracelets to promote their cause(s), and silicone awareness bracelets can be found in a wide variety of colors to suit virtually any cause.
Awareness bracelets gained in popularity in 2004 when the Lance Armstrong Foundation introduced its trademark yellow silicone Livestrong wristband to raise support for cancer research. By early 2005, silicone wristbands became popular with many charities, such as Make Poverty History and the BBC's Beat Bullying campaign. Other wristbands include wristbands for kidney donation (green), breast cancer (pink), diabetes (blue), multiple sclerosis (orange), Make Poverty History (white), epilepsy (half blue, half red), Hurricane Katrina (ocean blue mixed with white), pancreatic cancer (purple), and AIDS (red, made only in Africa). In general, the color of the band describes its cause, and the colors are often the same as the colors of awareness ribbons.
Widespread rumours by school children linking colored awareness ribbons (sometimes called Jelly Bracelets or Sex Bracelets) to a supposed teenager sex game are largely unfounded.
Chart of Awareness Bracelet Colors
| AIDS - Red Allergy - Gray Alzheimers - Purple Arthritis - Blue Asthma - Gray Autism - multicolored Bladder Cancer -Yellow Bone Cancer - White Bone Marrow - Green Brain Tumor - Gray Breast cancer - pink Cancer - Purple or Yellow Childhood Depression - Green Colitis - Purple Colon Cancer - Brown Colorectal Cancer - Brown Crohn's Disease - Purple Cystic Fibrosis - Purple Depression - Green Diabetes - Gray |
Disabled Children - Gray Distonia - Blue Eating Disorder - Light Blue Emphysema - Gray Endometriosis - Yellow Environmental - Green Epidermolysis Bullosa - Red Epilepsy - Purple Esophageal Cancer - Light Blue Eye Injury - Green Fibromyalgia - Purple Graves Disease - Light Blue Gynecological Cancer - Purple Headache - Burgundy Heart Disease - Red HIV - Red Hodkin's Disease - Purple Homeopathy Awareness- Emerald Hospice Care - Burgundy Invisible Illness - Silver or Gray |
IBS - Light Blue/Purple Kidney Cancer - Green Kidney Disease - Green Kidney Transplant - Green Leimyosarcoma - Purple Leukemia - Orange Lung cancer - gray Liver Disease - Yellow Lung Disease - Gray Lupus - Purple Lyme Disease - Green Lymphedema - Light Blue Lymphoma - Purple Macular Degeneration - Purple ME/CFIDS - Blue Melanoma - Black Mental Health - Lime Green Mental Illness - Gray Mental Retardation - Green Migraine awareness - Purple |
Multiple Myeloma - Burgundy Multiple Sclerosis (MS) - Gray Myasthenia Gravis - Light Blue/Teal Organ Donor - Green Ovarian Cancer - Light Blue/Teal Pancreatic Cancer - Purple Parkinson's Disease - Gray Prostate Cancer - Light Blue Pulmonary Hypertension - Purple Reflex Sympathitic Dystrophy - Orange Retinoblastoma - White Reye's Syndrome - Blue Rhett Syndrome - Purple Sarcoidosis - Purple Scleroderma - Light Blue Self Injury - Orange Spinal Bifida - Yellow Testicular Cancer - Pink Thyroid Disease - Light Blue Tissue Donation - Green |
- This web page is from the Disabled World Disability Awareness section which provides: Information on disability awareness and educating people regarding disabilities including disability etiquette guidelines in the community.
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