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World TB Day 24 March 2025

World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries.

What is the theme for World Tuberculosis Day 2025?

World Tuberculosis Day 2025: Unite to End Tuberculosis.

The Significance of World Tuberculosis Day

World Tuberculosis Day serves as a critical platform for educating the public about the impact of tuberculosis on the health, social, and economic well-being of populations worldwide. It also acts as a call to action for individuals, communities, and governments to join forces in the fight against tuberculosis and to accelerate efforts towards eliminating the disease as a public health burden.

The Objective of World Tuberculosis Day 2025

Raising Awareness

Our primary goal is to elevate public understanding and awareness about the ongoing TB epidemic, emphasizing the need for preventive measures, early diagnosis, and effective treatment.

Promoting Access to Care

We aim to highlight the importance of universal access to quality healthcare services, ensuring that everyone, regardless of their economic status, can receive the tuberculosis care they need.

Advocating for Research and Innovation

Continued innovation and research are vital for the development of new vaccines, diagnostic tools, and treatments to end tuberculosis. World Tuberculosis Day 2024 emphasizes the critical need for funding and support for TB research.

Strengthening Partnerships

The fight against tuberculosis requires a collaborative approach. We encourage partnerships among governments, health organizations, civil society, and the private sector to pool resources and expertise in combating tuberculosis.

https://sdgresources.relx.com/events/world-tuberculosis-day-2025-unite-end-tuberculosis

Human Rights Day 21 March 2025

Human Rights Day in South Africa is historically linked with the events in Sharpeville on 21 March 1960 when 69 people died and 180 were wounded when police fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered to protest against the Pass laws.

What are human rights?

Human rights are rights that everyone should have simply because they are human. In 1948, the United Nations defined 30 articles of human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It established universal human rights on the basis of humanity, freedom, justice, and peace.

https://www.parliament.gov.za/project-event-details/2

World Glaucoma Day 12 March 2025

The theme for Glaucoma Awareness 2025 centers on “See the Future Clearly,” emphasizing the importance of early detection, regular eye care, and community education to prevent vision loss

When it comes to glaucoma, the ‘sneak thief of sight’, lack of awareness may cause severe issues, that could even lead to permanent vision loss. And as glaucoma isn’t always under the radar of health officials worldwide, the World Glaucoma Week activities are crucial.

https://www.worldglaucomaweek.org/about-world-glaucoma-week/

World Obesity Day 4 March 2025

World Obesity Day is a unified day of action that calls for a cohesive, cross-sector response to the obesity crisis. It takes place on 4 March and is convened by the World Obesity Federation in collaboration with its global members.

Hundreds of individuals, organisations and alliances contribute to World Obesity Day every year, engaging hundreds of thousands of people across the world.

Previous World Obesity Days have encouraged people to recognise the root causes of obesity, increase knowledge of the disease, tackle weight stigma, foreground the voices of people with lived experience and act to improve the world’s understanding, prevention and treatment of obesity.

This year’s World Obesity Day shines a spotlight on the systems that shape our health. For too long, responses to obesity have focused on individuals, while the systems around us—healthcare, government policies, food environments, media, and workplaces—continue to fail us. It’s time to shift the focus and push for systemic change. Obesity is a complex, chronic disease and a major driver of other conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. By working together—governments, health professionals, advocates, and the public—we can transform these systems and create a healthier future for all.

For too long, responses to the obesity crisis have been focussed on individuals. It’s time we turn our attention to the systems that are failing us. Health systems, government systems, food systems, the media, and the environments we work and live in. All these systems are contributing to the increasing rates of obesity around the world.

We must work together to call for change to these systems, and people living with obesity must lead this call.

https://www.worldobesityday.org/

We must also recognise obesity as a complex, and chronic disease, and one that is also a driver of other diseases. Taking action on obesity is a critical step in reducing the global burden of other chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Together, governments, health professionals, advocates and the public can transform our systems, and build a healthier future for people all over the world.

Healthy Lifestyle Awareness

A healthy lifestyle encompasses a balanced diet, regular physical activity, mental health care, and avoiding harmful habits like smoking or excessive alcohol consumption.

Committing to being healthy is a great goal but being healthy entails more than just eating a nutritious meal now and then and going to the gym once a month. Because old habits die hard, changing your behaviours is a process that involves several stages. Sometimes it takes a while before changes like healthy eating and regular physical activity become new habits. And, yes, you may face roadblocks (and even the odd doughnut) along the way.

https://www.affinityhealth.co.za/healthy-lifestyle-awareness-month/

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