World Breastfeeding Week
from
01 August 2012
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07 August 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed 1-7 August, 2012, as the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). It is intended to reiterate the importance of breastfeeding, and the pivotal necessity of supporting it throughout the world. It seeks, also, to trace the results and achievements of the efforts aiming to encourage breastfeeding all over the world.
World Lymphoma Awareness Day
from
15 September 2012
to
15 September 2012
World Alzheimer's Day
from
21 September 2012
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21 September 2012
On September 21, 2011, the world is to celebrate the "World Alzheimer's Day", under the theme: (Faces of Dementia). Its main purpose is to be identified with the hardships and challenges of the dementia disease (Alzheimer), and shed light on it, as well as the suffering of its victims around the world. It also calls for exerting every effort and working unremittingly, in order to enhance health care and increased support for Alzheimer's patients and their families.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1433/Pages/HealthDay-2012-9-18-001.aspx
World Cancer Day
from
04 February 2013
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04 February 2013
Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world, according to WHO, which estimates that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. Low-income and medium-income countries are harder hit by cancer than the high-resource countries.Each year on 4 February, WHO supports International Union Against Cancer to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer.
World Kidney Day
from
14 March 2013
to
14 March 2013
(Stop Kidney Attack!) is this year’s theme, which aims at raising awareness of the main kidney diseases, treatment, possible prevention and unhealthy behaviors associated with kidney failure and diseases.
World Tuberculosis Day 2013
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24 March 2013
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24 March 2013
The World TB Day contributes to raising awareness of tuberculosis epidemic which had global repercussions. Thus, this disease inflicts one third of the world's population, most of them live in the developing countries. Stop TB strategy group; it is a network including the organizations and countries which work on combating this disease, organizes this world day to highlight the importance of the disease and how to prevent it and its treatment.
World Thalassemia Day
from
08 May 2013
to
08 May 2013
Thalassaemia is a genetic disorder affecting blood cells; i.e., it is passed from parent to child and is the most common inherited blood disorder in the world.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-009.aspx
World Asthma Day
from
07 May 2013
to
07 May 2013
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing, which vary in severity and frequency from person to person. Symptoms may occur several times in a day or week in affected individuals, and for some people become worse during physical activity or at night.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-008.aspx
World Hypertension Day
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17 May 2013
to
17 May 2013
World Hypertension Day is celebrated every year on the 17th of May, under the theme “Healthy Heart Beat-Healthy Blood Pressure”, aiming to raise awareness among the community about the preventative methods of hypertension and how to control it; seeking to detect the number of hypertension cases and monitor them.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-010.aspx
World Malaria Day
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25 April 2013
to
25 April 2013
The world celebrates the World Malaria Day every year on April 25th, 2012. This year's Day is held under the theme: “Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria”. Key interventions to control malaria include: prompt and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies; use of insecticidal nets by people at risk; and indoor residual spraying with insecticide to control the vector mosquitoes.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/012.aspx
GCC Oral Health Week
from
30 March 2013
to
05 April 2013
This week is meant to raise awareness among all society members, especially children, of the importance of oral and dental health care, and shed light on how to maintain oral and dental health, in addition to activating the preventive role of those working in the field of dentistry.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-004.aspx
World Health Day
from
07 April 2013
to
07 April 2013
World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. Each year a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority area of public health concern in the world. The theme for 2013 is High Blood Pressure or “Hypertension”.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-005.aspx
World Immunization Week
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24 April 2013
to
30 April 2013
The World Health Organization (WHO) endeavors to promote nations to organize the World Immunization Week, educate the public and exchange information in the light of World Immunization Week; in order to concentrate on the significance of vaccination (immunization) to save lives and encourage families to immunize their kids against fatal diseases.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-006.aspx
World Sickle Cell Day
from
19 June 2013
to
19 June 2013
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited form of anemia — a condition in which there aren't enough healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen throughout your body. That is caused by a disorder in the genes responsible for forming hemoglobin. Normally, your red blood cells are flexible and round, moving easily through your blood vessels. In sickle cell anemia, the red blood cells become rigid and sticky and are shaped like sickles or crescent moons. These irregularly shaped cells can get stuck in small blood vessels, which can slow or block blood flow and oxygen to parts of the body.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-016.aspx
World Hepatitis Day
from
28 July 2013
to
28 July 2013
(This is hepatitis. Know it. Confront it.)
The World Hepatitis Day will be officially celebrated for the first time on 28 July, marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis and the diseases that it causes and to raise awareness among the public.
http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-011.aspx
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW)
from
01 August 2013
to
07 August 2013
World Alzheimer's Day
from
21 September 2013
to
21 September 2013
World Heart Day
from
29 September 2013
to
29 September 2013
The World Heart Day is activated every year on September 29th. This year's day is celebrated under the theme: “Life-course Prevention and Control”. It is basically intended to raise people's awareness of the health factors associated to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), such as obesity, lack of physical activity and smoking (tobacco-use), as well as the ways and suggestions to reduce the burden of such factors to the lowest possible level. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-020.aspx
World Sight Day 2013
from
10 October 2013
to
10 October 2013
What is the vision initiative 2020: the right to sight? "2020 Vision: the Right to sight" is a global initiative, launched by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). It seeks to set programs and plans; to reduce the avoidable blindness by the advent of the 2020 http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-033.aspx
The International Day of Older Persons
from
01 October 2013
to
01 October 2013