World Health Days in the month of August
13 th August - World Organ Donation Day: Be the Reason for Someone's Smile Today!
World Organ Donation Day, observed annually on August 13, is a vital occasion dedicated to raising awareness about the significance of organ donation. This global event aims to dispel myths and misconceptions surrounding organ donation and encourage ...1st August - World Lung Cancer Day : United for a Cure
World Lung Cancer Day is observed annually on August 1st, dedicated to raising awareness about lung cancer, promoting early detection, and advocating for increased research funding and support for patients and their families. This global health ...1st August - World Lung Cancer Day: It's Time to Raise Awareness
World Lung Cancer Day is celebrated on August 1 every year to create awareness, educate people about lung cancer, focus more on lung cancer research, and arrange financial and moral support for ...13 th August - World Organ Donation Day – Pledge Your Organs and Save Lives
World Organ Donation Day is observed every year on 13th August and aims to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation in saving lives. Pledge to donate your organs and save lives on this Organ Donation ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week – Empower Parents and Promote Breastfeeding
World Breastfeeding Week – Empower Parents and Promote ...13 th August - Organ Donation Week in India – Donate your Organs and Save Lives
Organ donation is when a person permits removal of his organ/organs either by consent of the person while still alive or after death with the consent of the person’s immediate ...2 nd August - Breastfeeding: Foundation for Life - World Breastfeeding Week
World Breastfeeding Week is observed annually by several countries across the world in the first week of August (August 1 to 7) to encourage breastfeeding among women ...31st August - National Nutrition Week 2017
National nutrition week is celebrated in India on the first week of September every year. Various events are held across the country from September 1 - 7, to emphasize the importance of good nutrition. ...13 th August - Organ Donation Day: Pledge To Donate Your Organs and Save Lives
The Organ Donation Day is celebrated on the 13th August to increase awareness about the organ transplantation and to encourage people to pledge their ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week 2017
World Breastfeeding week is celebrated to encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months and improve the health of ...13 th August - Organ Donation Day 2016 - Donate Organs & Extend Our Own Life
Organ Donation Day is celebrated on 13th August every year in India and is the last day of the organ donation week that starts on the 6th of August. MOHAN Foundation, a pioneering NGO in this field started the organ donation week and organ donation ...2 nd August - World Breastfeeding Week 2016: Breastfeeding - A Key to Sustainable Development
Breastfeeding is the most effective method to save as well as improve the lives of young children everywhere. It also yields long-term health benefits for both the babies and their ...29 th August - International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2015
The International Day Against Nuclear Tests, declared by the United Nations General Assembly, is observed on the 29th of August every year. The day highlights the efforts needed to end nuclear testing to avoid the health hazards and harmful effects ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week 2015
World Breastfeeding Week is an annual celebration to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant's life. It was first celebrated in 1992 by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) but today it is observed in ...8 th August - Organ Donor Awareness Week 2013 - Gift of a Lifetime
People whose organs can be harvested after they are declared ‘brain dead’ are failing to give a fresh lease of life to those who are languishing for want of an organ transplant. This happens all over the world either because people aren’t quite ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week 2013
‘BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT: CLOSE TO MOTHERS‘ has been selected as the theme for this year's World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). This year, emphasis is being laid on the Breastfeeding Peer Counselling Program; it could be a cost ...8 th August - Organ Donor Awareness Week 2012 - 'Gifting Life'
August 8-14, 2012 Organ donor awareness week is celebrated in different countries around the world at different dates to honor donors and donor families and to address the dire need of organ donors everywhere in the world. ...8 th August - Organ Donor Awareness Week – 2011
“Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week 2011
“Breast Feed Your Baby Wholeheartedly” With a goal to boost the health of infants worldwide and encourage mothers to breastfeed, nearly 120 countries around the world celebrate World Breastfeeding Week from 1-7 August every ...8 th August - Organ Donor Awareness Week 2009
Around the world organ donor awareness week is earmarked by different countries at different dates as a week to commemorate the ultimate act of kindness by donors and donor families who give strangers a second lease of ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week 2009
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is officially celebrated from 1-7 August each year in over 120 countries to improve the health of the most vulnerable of world population-babies. World Breastfeeding Week is the greatest outreach program to promote ...8 th August - World Organ Donor Week
Organ donation, considered the highest form of human service, allows the opportunity to give life and let others live, even though we are gone. Not many may actually know that when a person donates organs and tissues, it can breathe life into nearly ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week - 2008
Breast feeding mothers need support from all directions - family, workplace, environment and their own confidence level to exclusively breast feed the child during the initial 6 months. Nutritional status and maternal health of women is imperative ...1st August - World Breast-feeding Awareness Week
Abysmal neonatal care and malnutrition are found to be overriding reasons for infant mortality in India. Statistics have shown that out of 27 million babies born in the country each year, as much as 1.2 million babies do not survive the first month. ...8 th August - World Organ Donor week 2006
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude ……………. Leonardo da Vinci The booming kidney trade in India is a cause of great concern due to its socio-economic, ethical and medico-legal ...1st August - World Breast-feeding Week 2006
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! Rightly so, for a mother is truly the one that moulds her child from the moment of birth. Enabling the child with the best right from the word Go should not be mere wishful-thinking, and in this age of ...1st August - World Breastfeeding Week 2005
‘Good Health begins with mother.There is no substitute to her milk’ . Breast feeding has been revisited this week due to the efforts of WHO, UNICEF and breast feeding steering committees as a socially acceptable and respectable practice. ...Ribbon For A Cause
AIDS
Red Ribbon Creates Awareness of AIDS
Ever since the discovery of the AIDS virus in 1981, the AIDS virus has been silently threatening all of Asia. One in four new infections occur in Asia every day. What is extremely alarming is that the disease has already spread into several provinces of the world’s most populated country – China. In
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Ever since the discovery of the AIDS virus in 1981, the AIDS virus has been silently threatening all of Asia. One in four new infections occur in Asia every day. What is extremely alarming is that the disease has already spread into several provinces of the world’s most populated country – China. In
Anti-Tobacco
Brown Ribbon Creates Awareness of Anti-Tobacco
Smoking still remains one of the leading causes of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. In spite of various technological advancements, tobacco still claims one life every ten seconds somewhere in the world. Tobacco can be consumed in
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Smoking still remains one of the leading causes of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. In spite of various technological advancements, tobacco still claims one life every ten seconds somewhere in the world. Tobacco can be consumed in
Brain Tumor
Grey Ribbon Creates Awareness of Brain Tumor
Grey pin is used to create awaraness regarding brain tumor, primary brain tumor which arise in the brain cells cannot be detected early and early detection of primary brain cancer does not influence survival rate as it depends up on age, tumor location and type rather than early detection. Secondary
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Grey pin is used to create awaraness regarding brain tumor, primary brain tumor which arise in the brain cells cannot be detected early and early detection of primary brain cancer does not influence survival rate as it depends up on age, tumor location and type rather than early detection. Secondary
Cervical Cancer
Teal-White Ribbon Creates Awareness of Cervical Cancer
The cervix is a part of the female reproductive system and forms the lower part of the womb or the uterus. Sixty years ago, cancer of the cervix was the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. However, there has been a dramatic reduction in the incidence rates due to increased awareness and effecti
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The cervix is a part of the female reproductive system and forms the lower part of the womb or the uterus. Sixty years ago, cancer of the cervix was the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. However, there has been a dramatic reduction in the incidence rates due to increased awareness and effecti
Colon Cancer
Blue Ribbon Creates Awareness of Colon Cancer
Blue Ribbon is associated with colon cancer and the month of March is celebrated as Colon cancer awareness month, during which awareness is created about the risks of colon cancer and the need of screening for early detection of colon cancer which can give better treatment and survival rate of 90%.
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Blue Ribbon is associated with colon cancer and the month of March is celebrated as Colon cancer awareness month, during which awareness is created about the risks of colon cancer and the need of screening for early detection of colon cancer which can give better treatment and survival rate of 90%.