Upcoming Events
January
- 1/2013
Caribbean Public Health Agency Kick-off : National Blood Donor Month : National Birth Defects Prevention Month : Cervical Health Awareness Month - 1/1/2013
International Year of Water Cooperation - Worldwide - 1/8-14/2013
National Folic Acid Awareness Week - 1/27/2013
World Leprosy Day
February
- 2/2013
International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month : American Heart Month - 2/4/2013
World Cancer Day - 2/6/2013
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation - 2/7/2013
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - 2/7-142013
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week : National Donor Day - 2/15/2013
National Women’s Heart Health Day - 2/19-20/2013
International Workshop: Scientific Journalism, Cancer Research in the Media - San Juan, Puerto Rico - 2/25-26/2013
Science for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development Conference - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March
- 3/2013
Red Cross Month : National Nutrition Month : National Colorectal Awareness Month : National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month : Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month : Hemophilia Month - 3/4-5/2013
Pan American Health Organization Working Group on Pertussis: First Meeting - PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC - 3/5-11/2013
Endometriosis Awareness Week - 3/10/2013
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - 3/12-14/2013
Field Visit: Measles, Rubella, and CRS Elimination in the Americas - Lima, Peru - 3/15/2013
World Sleep Day - 3/20/2013
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - 3/21/2013
World Down Syndrome Day - 3/22/2013
World Water Day - 3/24/2013
World Tuberculosis Day - 3/26/2013
National Diabetes Alert Day
April
- 04/2/2013
World Autism Day - 04/7/2013
World Health Day - 04/2-7/2013
Public Health Week - 04/8-12/2013
World Health Workers Week - 04/11/2013
World Parkinson's Day - 04/16/2013
World Voice Day - 04/17/2013
World Hemophilia Day - 04/16-18/2013
PAHO’s VI Meeting of Countries in the Americas with Low Prevalence of HIV - Santiago de Chile, Chile - 04/20-27/2013
World Immunization Week - 04/24/2013
PAHO Regional Celebrations: 11 Years of “Vaccination Week” in the Americas - Belize/Guatemala Border - 05/25/2013
World Malaria Day - 04/26/2013
PAHO Regional Celebrations: 11 Years of “Vaccination Week” in the Americas – Haiti
May
- 05/6-7/2013
Second Meeting of PAHO Working Group on Pertussis - PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC - 05/6-12/2013
Women’s Health Week - 05/7/2013
World Asthma Day - 05/08-09/2013
Expert Committee Meeting: Measles, Rubella, CRS Elimination in the Americas - PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC - 05/10/2013
World Lupus Day - 05/12/2013
International Nurses Day - 05/16-17/2013
PAHO Meeting to Address Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases - Bogota, Colombia - 05/17/2013
World AIDS Vaccine Day - 05/19-27/2013
Twenty-first African Union Summit - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 05/20-28/2013
Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly - Geneva, Switzerland - 05/31/2013
World No Tobacco Day
June
- 06/14/2013
World Blood Donor Day - 06/15/2013
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - 06/19/2013
World Sickle Cell Awareness Day
July
- 07/28/2013
World Hepatitis Day
August
- 08/1-7/2013
World Breastfeeding Week
September
- 09/10/2013
World Suicide Prevention Day - 09/21/2013
World Alzheimer's Day - 09/29/2013
World Heart Day
October
- 10/1/2013
International Day of Older Persons - 10/10/2013
World Mental Health Day - 10/12/2013
World Arthritis Day - 10/14-18/2013
XII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean – Dominican Republic - 10/15/2013
World Handwashing Awareness Day - 10/24/2013
World Polio Day - 10/29/2013
World Stroke Day
November
- 11/10-13/2013
PAHO’s 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health - Recife, Brazil - 11/12/2013
World Pneumonia Day
December
- 12/1/2013
World AIDS Day - 12/3/2013
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
