Eight campaigns for a healthier world
Note these days of mobilization for health in your diaries
Global public health campaigns offer important opportunities to raise awareness ofhealth issues, promote a better understanding of the issues in this area and mobilizecommunities from the local level to the international level in order to act for ahealthier world.
Throughout the year, many world days are organized around problems of health ordiseases ranging from Alzheimer's disease to zoonoses.
WHO however pays special attention to seven days and week have been designatedby Member States of the Organization as being 'official' global public healthcampaigns:
Here is the list:
World TB Day, March 24
World Health Day, April 7
World immunization week, the last week of April
World malaria day, 25 April
world no tobacco day, May 31
World blood donor day, 14 June
World hepatitis day, July 28
World AIDS Day, 1 December
Take action for a healthier world
Bringing your children to be vaccinated, referring to your students the ravages oftobacco on health, through mobile blood samples in your community or bycontributing to trade online through social media, you can participate in these globalefforts for a healthier world.
This site gathers information on the eight official campaigns that are our priority. Foreach of them, you'll find here facts and figures that highlight issues and draw worldattention to the great challenges of public health. You will also find multimediaresources.