Health Events

The World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year over the period from 1-7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of the infants throughout the world. Breastfeeding is the best way to provide the newborns with the nutrients they need

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The World Hepatitis Day is celebrated every year on the twenty-eighth of July as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to boost the awareness on the viral hepatitis and the diseases that it causes. And, it also aims to raise the awareness on the disease and ways of transmission and prevention

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June 26, every year, marks the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which was first set by the UN General Assembly in 1987. In fact, drug abuse and addiction are reckoned one of the most dangerous psychological and social problems http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/HealthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-26.aspx

Sickle cell anemia is one of the genetic blood diseases causing disorder in the gene responsible for the formation of hemoglobin, and causing the sticking of these cells into the small blood cells and therefore reducing the flow of the blood and oxygen to the body organs http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-19.aspx

Blood donation is a noble behavior and human initiative performed by a healthy, sound person to a sick or injured person to help saving their life. To that effect, over 107 million donated blood units have been collected from all over the world

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World Environment Day is held on June 5 annually, and it is one of the main means through which the United Nations (UN) enhances the international awareness about the environment and its issues. Further, marking this Day, the UN seeks to shed more light on the environmental issues, and urge a political action to that effect http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-05.aspx

The World Milk Day is marked on the first of June every year. The world first celebrated it in 2001. Similarly, observing it, the world bodies aim to educate the communities on what pertains to the milk with respect to its sources, nutritional elements, its significance in terms of preventing from the diseases and maintaining the health. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-01.aspx

The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly six million people each year, of which more than 600.000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand smoke. Unless we adopt the required measures, the epidemic will kill more than eight million people every year by 2030 http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-31.aspx

Hypertension is defined as steady increase in pressurizing the blood vessels; this in turn strains the function of pumping the blood to the heart. Therefore, it is considered one of the main factors leading to the cardiovascular diseases http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-17.aspx

Thalassemia is a genetic disorder affecting the blood cells. It is characterized by decline, below the natural rate, in both the red blood corpuscles and the level of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is a protein in the red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-08.aspx

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease, quite prevalent among children. According to the WHO estimates, there are about 300.000.000 asthma patients around the world. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-06.aspx

This annual event is marked on March 24th of every year to commemorate Dr. Robert Koch's discovery, in 1882, for tubercle bacillus causing tuberculosis, which was the first step towards diagnosing the disease and its treatment http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-03-24.aspx

The oral and dental health is part and parcel of the public health negatively or positively getting affected by it and affecting it. Since the injury rate of the oral and dental diseases in the Gulf Cooperation Council's states http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-03-22.aspx

The World Kidney Day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-03-13.aspx

Each year on 4 February, the world celebrates the World Cancer Day with an aim to unify people around the world to fight this deadly disease

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The World AIDS Day is celebrated each year on the 1st of December, with a view to encouraging people all over the world to promote awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as stimulating international cooperation to combat this hazardous disease. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-029.aspx

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is not a single disease but an umbrella term used to describe chronic lung diseases, most notably bronchitis and emphysema. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/1434/Pages/HealthDay-2013-11-20.aspx