California Lyme Disease Association -- empowering patients through education, advocacy and research since 1989

How can one person make a difference in Lyme’s tragic world?

Stop Denials of Patient Care!
CALDA provides the legal muscle to challenge medical societies and insurance companies that deny treatment, to hold public policy makers accountable, and to promote patient legislation state and nationwide
Get The Word Out!
The Lyme Times is the only national publication dedicated to Lyme disease.

Train Physicians!
CALDA is the only organization in the nation that funds the training of healthcare providers who attend the medical conferences of Columbia/Lyme Disease Association and International Lyme and Associated Dseases Society.
Fund Research!
CALDA funds
research at Stony
Brook, Stanford and
UC Davis.

Make Grassroots Advocacy Work!
CALDA has the only national network of online, state-based information and support groups. These groups promote state and nationwide advocacy efforts. CALDA’s first Lyme Activist Program was attended by more than 70 patient advocates.

IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE.

Only YOU

can make that difference