Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. According to the world report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities because of many obstacles
World Tuberculosis Day, falling on March 24 each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic oftuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease. In 2012, 8.6 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.3 million died from the disease, mostly in the Third World. The World TB Day theme for 2015 will be "Reach, Treat, Cure Everyone".
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization is widely recognized as one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions. It prevents between 2 million and 3 million deaths every year and now protects children not only against diseases for which
On April 25th people across the globe take part in a wide range of activities to mark World Malaria Day.A day to keep up the fight against this killer disease.
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe.
The theme of this year’s campaign is "Thank you for saving my life". It focuses on thanking blood donors who save lives every day through their blood donations and strongly encourages more people all over the world to donate blood voluntarily and regularly with the slogan “Give freely, give often. Blood donation matters.”
World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis — a group of infectious diseases known as Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E — and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
