#HealthyLifeMatters: WHO Global Health Days

Global public health days offer great potential to raise awareness and understanding about health issues and mobilize support for action, from the local community to the international stage. There are many world days observed throughout the year related to specific health issues or conditions – from Alzheimer's to zoonoses.

However, WHO focuses particular attention on the 9 days and 2 weeks that WHO Member States have mandated as "official" global public health days. These are:

• Year of Health and Care Workers 2021 - 1 Jan. - 31 Dec.
• World Tuberculosis Day - 24 March
• World Health Day - 7 April
• World Chagas Disease Day - 14 April
• World Malaria Day - 25 April
• World Immunization Week - 24-30 April
• World No Tobacco Day - 31 May
• World Blood Donor Day - 12 June
• World Hepatitis Day - 28 July
• World Patient Safety Day - 17 September
• World Antimicrobial Awareness Week - 18-24 November
• World AIDS Day - 1 December

Whether you are taking the kids to be vaccinated, talking to students on the devastating health effects of tobacco, organizing a mobile blood collection in your community, or contributing to the online conversation through social media, you can play a part in these worldwide efforts to create a healthier world.

Leading up to each day, this is where you will find background information, graphics, multi-media links, facts and figures that help highlight the issues and focus global attention on today’s major public health challenges.
Together, we can make this world a better place! [0x1f623]
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