EndoMarch Day 2026

On Saturday, March 28, 2026, tens of thousands of Endometriosis Resistance Fighters, Survivors, and their families from around the world united for the 13th Annual Worldwide EndoMarch — standing together to demand an end to the decades-long endometriosis healthcare inequities causing so much loss of life and harm to Survivors across the globe.

Our 2026 Call to Action — Change the Med School Curricula

This year's Call to Action focused on outreach to medical schools and medical societies across every discipline, to help expedite the global campaign to change the outdated and discriminatory medical school curricula around the world — one of the root causes perpetuating harmful endometriosis and adenomyosis myths, year after year.

Participants also connected with leading endometriosis surgeons and advocates from around the world, and learned about the incredible advocacy work of endometriosis organizations from 70+ countries who fought for urgently needed healthcare policy reforms and standards-of-care guidelines that reflected patient-identified needs.

You Showed Up Online

On EndoMarch Day, participants tagged us on Instagram (@wwendomarch) and TikTok (@worldwide_endomarch) to share their stories and join forces with hundreds of thousands of advocates around the world who took part in the Global EndoMarch Movement.

About Endometriosis: A Whole-Body, Severe Chronic Condition

Endometriosis is an incurable, whole-body (systemic), chronic, inflammatory disease that can cause incapacitating pain anywhere in the body and at any time of the month, along with potential multi-organ failure, infertility, and other severe and sometimes life-threatening medical consequences if inadequately treated.

Described as one of the top ten most painful conditions on record, endometriosis is also one of the most destructive chronic diseases known to medicine — a leading cause of school absences in girls and a leading cause of hospitalization and severe disability in women, girls, and persons assigned female at birth. (An unmeasured number of cis men, intersex, transgender, and non-binary individuals also suffer from endometriosis and continue to face especially onerous barriers to proper care.)

Contrary to popular belief, endometriosis is not a reproductive-tract disease or "just a bad period," but one that can cause severe chronic symptoms throughout the entire body — system-wide pain, severe chronic fatigue, immune and endocrinologic dysfunction, and damage to multiple organs and tissues, including the bowel, bladder, ureters, diaphragm, muscles, musculoskeletal structures, nerves, lungs, and liver.

Why We Marched: Barriers to Care Causing Preventable Harm

Serious barriers to adequate care and a broken healthcare system contribute to significantly worse health outcomes for people with endometriosis — including multiple failed surgeries, multiple failed medications that cause more damage and severe side effects, and even so-called "never events" of wrong-organ surgeries.

Many of these preventable adverse outcomes are the result of decades of dismissive, discriminatory treatment that leaves the vast majority of patients facing years of denials or insurmountable barriers to specialist, gold-standard care — because endometriosis continues to be dismissed as "normal," when its potential for body-wide destruction also includes an almost 4-to-10-fold increased chance of developing certain cancers (it is associated with approximately 10% of ovarian cancers).

The tragic part is that most of these severe outcomes could be preventable if patients received the recognized standards of care at symptom onset, rather than being left in excruciating pain for up to 7–11 years while the disease rampages unchecked throughout the body. That is exactly why we marched — and why we continue to march.

About the Global EndoMarch Movement

The Worldwide Endometriosis March® (Worldwide EndoMarch®) ignited a global endometriosis movement to fight for urgently needed Endometriosis Health Care Rights and Reforms. The largest internationally coordinated awareness campaign in the world, it was founded by Dr. Camran Nezhat, Dr. Farr Nezhat, Dr. Ceana Nezhat, Dr. Azadeh Nezhat, and Barbara Page. They are also the proud original founders of the "No Pharma in Endo" advocacy movement, which started in 2013, when Worldwide EndoMarch became one of the earliest U.S.-based endometriosis advocacy nonprofits to prohibit funding from pharmaceutical companies or any other companies that would represent a conflict of interest.