Category: Campaigns
World Blood Donor Day 2025
Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day, a day dedicated to expressing gratitude to voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving contributions…Read more See more: Related links: See everything in LIS
World No Tobacco Day 2025
Bright products. Dark intentions. Unmasking the Appeal Appealing flavours, but hidden dangers.Shameless manipulation of our children, for industry profit. Every day, tobacco and nicotine industries use carefully engineered products and deceptive tactics to hook a new generation of users and keep existing ones. Keep the industry out…read more See more: Related links: See everything in […]
Vaccination Week in the Americas 2025
ABOUT VACCINATION WEEK IN THE AMERICAS From 26 April to 3 May, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), together with the countries and territories of the Region of the Americas and its partners, will celebrate the 23rd annual Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) and the 14th World Immunization Week (WIW) under the call […]
World Health Day 2025
Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures World Health Day, celebrated on 7 April 2025, will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being…read […]
World Tuberculosis Day 2025
Yes! We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver Every year, tuberculosis (TB) affects millions of people worldwide, leaving a devastating impact on communities. Despite being preventable and curable, it remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases. This year, World TB Day highlights the urgency of action. Countries have committed to accelerating the response and ensuring […]
World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day 2025
Theme: Involving communities. A hands-on approach to neglected diseases. On World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (January 30, 2025), PAHO calls on governments, health workers, cooperation agencies, and community and civil organizations, which play an important role in collective efforts to eliminate and control these infections, to work on comprehensive health actions focused on populations and communities. Involve […]
World Aids Day 2024
On December 1, we’re putting human rights at the forefront. We invite the Americas to take action by expanding access to PrEP, because our path to ending HIV is “Better with PrEP.” Today, around 2.7 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are living with HIV. In 2023 alone, about 135,000 people acquired the […]
World Diabetes Day 2024
Every November 14, World Diabetes Day is commemorated. This is an opportunity to raise awareness about the impact of diabetes on people’s health and to highlight the opportunities to strengthen the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes. This year’s theme, “Breaking Barriers, Bridging Gaps,” underpins our commitment to reducing the risk of diabetes and ensuring […]
Malaria Day in the Americas 2024
Every November 6, PAHO celebrates Malaria Day in the Americas in the Region, where it calls on endemic countries, local leaders and partners in the fight against malaria to join efforts in a strategy aimed at expanding access to diagnosis and treatment as a main pillar of elimination in the region and to accelerate the […]
World Polio Day 2024
Every 24th October, World Polio Day highlights global efforts to eliminate polio and the importance of vaccination in protecting children from the disease. It is also an opportunity to highlight the importance of all mothers, fathers, caregivers, health workers and volunteers who play a key role in getting polio vaccines to children and their communities…read more See […]
