World Day of Down syndrome: "Do not leave anyone out", this is the motto of this year 2019

Since March 21, 2012, the
World Down Syndrome Day worldwide. The date was chosen by the
United Nations (UN), in its general badembly of the Assembly of 19 December 2011.

The purpose of the celebration is to raise awareness of the "dignity, value and valuable contribution of people with intellectual disabilities as promoters of the well-being and diversity of their communities". Emphasize also the importance of their autonomy and their individual independence; in particular: the freedom to make one's own decisions.

Every year, World Down Syndrome Day is themed. In 2019, the motto is "Do not leave anyone out", with the goal that "all people with Down syndrome have the opportunity to live fully, on a par with others, as in the rest of the population." aspects of society, "stresses the UN on its website.

Access to early intervention programs and inclusive education, such as adequate research, is essential to the growth and development of a person born with this genetic alteration.

Global statistics indicate that of each of about 700 viable conceptions, a person with Down syndrome may be born. Its name comes from the fact that John Langdon Down was the first to describe this genetic alteration in 1866; although he has never discovered the causes that have produced it. In July 1958, the investigator Jerome Lejeune discovered the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21 (or part of it), instead of the usual two, so it is also called trisomy of the couple 21.