Events

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

March is the month of colorectal awareness. It gathers the colon cancer community, including patients, survivors and health care providers to organize events and to raise awareness about colon cancer and screening methods.

Africa TB Week

Africa TB Week, falling on March 23rd – 30th each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of Africa, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries. AHO joins the international community to commemorate Africa TB Week and World TB Day on 24 March.

Each year we commemorate Africa TB Week to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease. Despite significant progress over the last decades, TB continues to be the top infectious killer worldwide, claiming over 4 500 lives a day. The emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) poses a major health security threat and could risk gains made in the fight against TB.

Africa Vaccination Month

Africa Immunisation Month is commemorated every year across Africa during the month of April, 1-30. Immunisation averts 2-3 million deaths annually. However, an additional 1.5 million deaths could be avoided if global immunisation could improve. AHO is proposing immunisation month dedicated to Africa. A proposal will be passed on to the AHO Health Congress the supreme decision-making body of AHO to approve the month.

World Immunisation Week

Immunisation averts 2-3 million deaths annually. However, an additional 1.5 million deaths could be avoided if global immunisation could improve.
In 2014, 115 million infants worldwide received diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine
85%In 2014, about 85% of the world's children received one dose of measles vaccine by their first birthday