Members of the IOF Committee of National Societies reported almost 200 activities in 39 countries for World Osteoporosis Day 2026, under the theme “Build, Protect, Strengthen Your Bones for Life.”

IOF congratulates its member societies worldwide on their World Osteoporosis Day campaigns. More than 50 national societies and allied members reached patients, families, health professionals, and policymakers with public events, screenings, scientific meetings, press releases, and media appearances.

If your organisation held a World Osteoporosis Day event that isn’t yet on the global map, we encourage you to submit your World Osteoporosis Day event to the global map!

IOF also thanks all the Capture the Fracture Fracture® Liaison Service (FLS) teams worldwide that contributed to this year's campaign. You can read how FLS teams marked World Osteoporosis Day 2026 here.

World Osteoporosis Day 2026 highlights by country

ARGENTINA: The Argentine Society of Osteoporosis (SAO) held a bone health talk for the community in Buenos Aires and ran a World Osteoporosis Day campaign on its digital channels.

ARMENIA: The Armenian Society of Metabolic Bone Diseases and Osteoporosis co-hosted a free online conference for health professionals, “Osteoporosis & Disorders of Parathyroid Hormone”, with Columbia University on 15 October. Prof. John Bilezikian, Prof. Emily Stein, Prof. E. Michael Lewiecki, and Dr Varta Babalyan spoke, and IOF President Prof. Nicholas Harvey opened the session.

BRAZIL: ABRASSO held a free prevention event for the public at Estação Barra Funda train station in São Paulo on 20 October. FEBRASGO published articles on silent bone loss in menopause and on fractures after minor falls as a warning sign of fragile bones. IOF expanded the Camina Por Tus Huesos initiative, driven by IOF Latam, alongside ABOOM and Retos Femeninos during the month of October. 

DENMARK: HRH Princess Benedikte presented Osteoporoseforeningen’s research grants to four researchers at Regionshospitalet Gødstrup on 20 October. The association’s press release noted that 700,000 Danes live with osteoporosis. Local branches added a lecture in Støvring, a bone café in Odense, walks on the island of Mors and in Ry, and a studio tour of regional broadcaster DR Syd in Aabenraa.

FINLAND: The Finnish Osteoporosis Association (Luustoliitto) ran Luustoviikko 2026, its national Bone Week, with two press releases, an online lecture on strength training, and White Shirt Day on 20 October. Its regional associations held more than a dozen local events in Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kotka, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki, Savonlinna, and Tampere, from hospital information points to bone cafés, nutrition lectures, and peer support meetings.

FRANCE: AFLAR co-hosted a menopause and osteoporosis open day at Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph on 16 October. GRIO held a World Osteoporosis Day event at Hôpital Cochin in Paris on 20 October.

GEORGIA: The Georgian Association of Skeletal Metabolism Diseases ran a Fundamentals of Osteoporosis course for clinicians in Tbilisi on 16 October.

GERMANY: BfO welcomed patients to its free 24th Patient Congress at the main building of LMU Munich on 17 October. Experts spoke on life after a fracture, exercise, artificial intelligence in geriatrics, medication, and bone and dental health, and BfO presented its Media Prize and “OsteopoRose” awards.

HONG KONG SAR, CHINA: The Asian Pacific Osteoporosis Foundation ran “Understand Your Fracture Risk, Stay Strong”, combining scientific talks, press outreach, and community education.

INDONESIA: PERWATUSI joined the Indonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (POGI) to celebrate National Osteoporosis Day (HON 2026) with about 1,150 participants. The event focused on bone health for women going through menopause.

IRAN: The Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute at Tehran University of Medical Sciences led National Bone Health Week from 17 October. It included the 19th Public Awareness Conference on Osteoporosis on 20 October. With the Iran Osteoporosis Society and the Ministry of Health, it also hosted the 21st “What’s new in osteoporosis” seminar for health professionals on 21–22 October.

ISRAEL: The Israel Foundation for Osteoporosis hosted an academic conference for physicians and healthcare professionals as part of Osteoporosis Awareness Week.

ITALY: FEDIOS ran a national campaign of free consultations in 129 healthcare centres, which gave about 3,600 medical consultations and osteoporosis risk assessments. Its joint initiative with the Italian Coeliac Association on coeliac disease and bone health reached ANSA, Rai News, iO Donna, VITA, Sanità Informazione, and Doctor33. In Pesaro, FEDIOS and SIOMMMS held “Ossi duri… si diventa” on 18 October, with a community walk along the seafront, stretching sessions, expert talks, and free medical and nutritional consultations. FIRMO and OFF Italia held an institutional meeting on prevention at the Italian Senate on 20 October, and FIRMO President Prof. Maria Luisa Brandi spoke about osteoporosis on Rai.

JAPAN: The Japan Osteoporosis Foundation (JPOF) lit up 25 landmarks in blue, from Matsumoto Castle and Osaka City Hall to the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge. With the Japan Osteoporosis Society, it produced a national poster, supported by IOF and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, that casts strong bones as “two-way players”: build them, then protect them. A WOD video also ran on large digital screens from 28 September.

LEBANON: The AUB Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program marked National Osteoporosis Day on 20 October with a roadmap for putting guidelines into practice nationwide, developed with WHO and the Ministry of Public Health. A hands-on session for students and athletes and a public awareness booth followed on 26 and 27 October.

MONGOLIA: The Mongolian Naran Society for Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Health held its fifth annual free screening on 16 October, assessing the bone density of more than 170 people and handing out vitamin D and calcium. President Dr Myadagmaa Jaalkhorol briefed journalists at a press conference, and society experts appeared in the Udriin Sonin newspaper, on Mongol TV, and on national radio and television (MNB).

NETHERLANDS: The Osteoporose Vereniging staffed information stands at seven hospitals in Tilburg, Utrecht, Almelo, Scheemda, Meppel, Dordrecht, and ’s-Hertogenbosch. It also published a survey in which people with osteoporosis rated their care 5.8 out of 10. ReumaZorg Nederland supported the campaign online.

PAKISTAN: Aga Khan University launched Pakistan’s national Clinical Standards for Fracture Liaison Services at its Bone and Mineral Matters Symposium on 20 October. The Pakistan Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled held two days of osteoporosis outreach for patients in Lahore.

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: The Palestinian Osteoporosis Prevention Society offered discounted bone density scans at Al Mizan Hospital in Hebron throughout October.

PORTUGAL: SPODOM supported the launch of “O Tombo da Avó Francisca”, a children’s book by rheumatologist Joana Fonseca Ferreira about building and protecting bones, in Coimbra on 20 October.

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: The Russian Association on Osteoporosis (RAOP) and OSTEORUS organised almost 40 activities from Omsk to St Petersburg. They included a mobile unit offering free bone density scans on St Petersburg’s Sennaya Square, an “OsteoLine” hotline, hospital open days in Yaroslavl and Krasnoyarsk, and regional conferences for doctors. OSTEORUS reached children and students through school lessons, a health day in a Yaroslavl park, and its 13th nationwide children’s drawing contest.

SLOVENIA: The Slovene Osteoporosis Patient Society celebrated its 25th anniversary at Dvorana Lent in Maribor on 17 October, with members travelling by bus from all over the country. Its branches added FRAX bone density checks in Šentjur, Škofja vas, and Mozirje, and lectures on sarcopenia and nutrition.

SOUTH AFRICA: NOFSA called on South Africans to “build, protect and strengthen their bones for life” in its press release. Its 10th annual Rattle Your Bones 5 km fun walk/run at Groot Constantia sold out ahead of 7 November. NOFSA CEO Teréza Hough discussed osteoporosis, fracture risk and the need for greater awareness around bone health on Radio 702.

SOUTH KOREA: The Korean Society of Osteoporosis sponsored a 2.9 km walk for osteoporosis prevention in Seoul’s Olympic Park on 18 October, hosted by the Korea Women’s Health and Osteoporosis Foundation.

SPAIN: AECOS launched “NO sabes lo que te pierdes,” a campaign showing how a fragility fracture can take away independence and everyday life.

SWEDEN: Osteoporosförbundet held Osteoporosis Day events in Falun, Falkenberg, Luleå, Skövde, and Växjö, including an open house at Växjö hospital’s osteoporosis clinic. Vera Berg appeared on TV4’s Nyhetsmorgon and in the Alexandra webinar on 20 October. The Swedish Osteoporosis Society (SVOS) launched Osteoporospodden, a new podcast.

TÜRKIYE: The Istanbul Musculoskeletal Health Consortium (IMHeal) screened patients and the public with the IOF Risk Check and FRAX® at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. It also used the IOF campaign posters in Turkish.

UKRAINE: The Ukrainian Association of Osteoporosis trained doctors at its two-day “Musculoskeletal Diseases and Age” conference in Kyiv on 24–25 September.

UNITED KINGDOM: The Royal Osteoporosis Society invited the public to join World Osteoporosis Day, launched its “Are you the One in Two?” campaign, and promoted its three-minute online risk check in The Mirror. It held a World Osteoporosis Day event in Bristol, and volunteer support groups met in Liverpool and Garstang.