| World Sight Day 2009
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| World Sight Day, which falls on October 8th, 2009, seeks to be an eye-opener of sorts with its theme Gender and Eye Health to ensure gender equality in the access of eye care services, which is unfortunately not the case in t... |
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| World Heart Day 2009
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| World Heart Day 2009 which falls on September 27th, 2009 is a day dedicated to creating awareness about the risks of heart disease and ways to prevent it. The theme for the day Work with Heart is a clarion call to wake up and t... |
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| Organ Donor Awareness Week 2009
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| 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 life.... |
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| World Breastfeeding Week 2009
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| 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 feed... |
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| World No Tobacco Day - 2009
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| Tobacco health warnings-the theme for this years No Tobacco Day on March 31st, reinforces the need to step up graphic warnings on tobacco packages to discourage consumers from using tobacco in any form-smoking cigars, cigarettes, water pipes, hook... |
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| World Kidney Day - 2009
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| World Kidney Day (WKD) is a campaign to increase awareness on the importance of kidneys, and to reduce the occurrence of kidney disease, globally. It is celebrated in more than 100 countries on the second Thursday of March every year. The campaign w... |
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| World Cancer Day - 2009
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| Cancer, a word that can send a chill down the spine and mean the end of the world to many who face such a verdict, is also the leading cause of death worldwide. To catch them young and watch them grow to be healthy adults, is the pervading sentiment ... |
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| World Diabetes Day - 2008
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| In a world where nearly 70,000 children are diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes each year, making it one of the most chronic diseases during childhood, World Diabetes Day celebrated on November 14th 2008 by the International Diabetes Federation and the WH... |
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| World Mental Health Day
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| World Mental Health Day falls on October 10, 2008. The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) focuses on attracting worldwide attention on burning global mental health issues through education, information, active support and ... |
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| World Heart Day - 2008
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| World Heart day 2008 seeks to underline the life and death issues surrounding heart disease with the theme Know your risk.... |
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