Health Awareness Days

 

February

• Ovarian Cancer month 
• 8-14th International Childhood Cancer week
• 11th International Women and Girls in Science
• 8th - 14th Heart Failure Awareness Week 
• 14th Sweetheart Day (Congenital Heart Kids)
• 25th Teal Ribbon Day (Ovarian Cancer)

March

• Worlds Greatest Shave
• 6th World Lymphoedema Day 
• 8th International Womens Day
• 4th-7th Lymphoedema Awareness Week
• 12th World Kidney Day
• 13th-20th Coeliac Awareness Week
• 16th -20th Neurodiversity Celebration Week
• 20th International Happiness Day
• 24th World Tuberculosis Day
• 26th Purple Day (Epilepsy)

April 

• 7th World Health Day
• 11th World Parkinson Day
• 14th International Moment of Laughter Day
• 17th World Hemophilia Day
• 25th World Malaria Day
• 29th Undiagnosed Disease Day

May

• Macular Month
• 5th World Asthma Day
• 8th World Ovarian Cancer Day
• 8th World Redcross Day
• 12th International ME/CFS Day
• 12^th International Nurses Day
• 22^nd World Pre-eclampsia Day
• 19th World Family Cancer Day
• 23rd Australia's Biggest Morning Tea
• 26th National Sorry Day
• 30th World MS Day

June 

• Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
• 1^st – 7^th World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week
• 9-15^th Men’s Health Week
• 9^th – 15^th National Blood Donor Week
• 2nd-8th World Hemochromatosis Day
• 14th World Blood Donor Day
• 16th Red Apple Day (Bowel Cancer)
• 19th World Sickle cell Day
• 21st Motor Neuron Disease Day
• 29th World Scleroderma Day

July

• Dry July (Cancer)
• 13-19^th National Diabetes Week
• 22^nd World Fragile X Day
• 27^th-3^rd Donate Life Week (Organ Donation)
• 28^th World Hepatitis Day

August

• 1^st World Lung Cancer Awareness Day
• 7^th Jeans for Genes Day (genetic birth defects)
• 20th World Mosquito Day
• 21st - 27th Brain Injury Awareness Week
• 20th Daffodil Day (Cancer Council)
• 27th Inherited Cancers Awareness Day
• 29^th Wear It Purple Day (LGBTQIA+)

September

• World Alzheimer’s Month
• Global Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
• Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month
• Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
• 4^th PKD Awareness Day (Polycystic Kidney Disease)
• 4^th World Sexual Health Day
• 7^th World Duchenne Awareness (Muscular Dystrophy)
• 7th - 11th Women's Health Week
• 12^th RUOK? Day
• 15^th World Patient Safety Day
• 21^st World Alzheimer’s Day
• 25^th World Pharmacists Day
• 29^th World Heart Day

October

• Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Red Socks Run (Kidney Disease)
• 6^th World Cerebral Palsy Day
• 10^th World Mental Health Day
• 13^th Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
• 11-17^th National Carers Week

November

• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• Movember (Men’s Health)
• 4th International Pathology Day
• 9-13th Cervical Cancer Awareness Week
• 12th Genetic Counsellors Awareness Day
• 14^th World Diabetes Day
• 17^th Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action
• 18-24^th World Antibiotic Awareness Week
• 18th World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day
• 19^th International men’s Day
• 20^th World Children’s Day
• 26th World Sustainable Transport Day

December

• Decembeard (Bowel Cancer)
• 1^st World AIDS Day
• 12^th Universal Health Coverage Day
• 27^th International Day of Epidemic Preparedness