Awareness Calendar for October

Month:

  • ADHD
  • AIDS (December is more popularized as AIDS awareness month, but October is a secondary month)
  • America Pharmacists
  • Breast Cancer
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Depression Education and Awareness
  • Disability Employment
  • Domestic Violence
  • Down Syndrome
  • Dwarfism
  • Dysautonomia
  • Dyslexia
  • Emotional Wellness
  • Ergonomics
  • Eye Injury
  • Gaucher Disease
  • Health Literacy
  • Healthy Lungs
  • Home Eye Safety
  • LGBT History
  • Liver
  • Long-Term Care Planning
  • Medical Librarians
  • Medical Ultrasound
  • Menopause
  • Niemann-Pick Disease
  • Organize Your Medical Information
  • Orthodontic Health
  • Patient-Centered Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss
  • Residents’ Rights
  • Rett Syndrome
  • SIDS
  • Spina Bifida
  • Talk About Your Medicines

Day/week:

  • International Day of Non-Violence (2)
  • Child Health Day (2)
  • National Primary Care Week (2-6)
  • World Cerebral Palsy Day (3)
  • World Animal Day (4)
  • National Taco Day (4)
  • World Cerebral Palsy Day (6)
  • Mental Illness Awareness Week (7-13)
  • World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (8)
  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day (9)
  • World Mental Health Day (10)
  • National Coming Out Day (11)
  • National Depression Screening Day (11)
  • Bone and Joint Health National Action Week (12-20)
  • World Thrombosis Day (13)
  • Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (13)
  • National Dessert Day (14)
  • International Infection Prevention Week (14-20)
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day (15)
  • National Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (15)
  • White Cane Safety Day (15)
  • Global Handwashing Day (15)
  • National White Cane Safety Day (15)
  • National Healthcare Quality Week (15-21)
  • World Food Day (16)
  • World Spine Day (16)
  • National Health Education Week (16-20)
  • World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day (19)
  • Asexual Awareness Week (19-25)
  • World Osteoporosis Day (20)
  • National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day (21)
  • International Stuttering Awareness Day (22)
  • Respiratory Care Week (22-28)
  • Lung Health Day (25)
  • Intersex Awareness Day (26)
  • World Stroke Day (29)
  • World Psoriasis Day (29)
  • Lung Health Day (31)

Awareness Calendar for September

Month:

  • Alcohol & Drug Addiction
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Blood Cancer
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
  • Childhood Cancer
  • Cholesterol Education
  • Craniofacial Acceptance
  • Food Safety Education
  • Guide Dogs!
  • Gynecologic Cancer
  • Healthy Aging
  • Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
  • Hunger
  • ITP (immune thrombocytopenia)
  • Menopause
  • Newborn Screening
  • Ovarian Cancer
  • Pain
  • Pediculosis Prevention Month/Head Lice Prevention
  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Rheumatic Disease
  • Reye’s Syndrome
  • Self-Awareness
  • Self-Improvement
  • Sepsis
  • Sexual Health
  • Sickle Cell
  • Sports Eye Safety
  • Thyroid Cancer
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Yoga

Days/weeks:

  • International Bacon Day (2)
  • World Sexual Health Day (4)
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Day (9)
  • Healthcare Environmental Services Week (9-15)
  • National Suicide Prevention Week (9-15)
  • World Suicide Prevention Day (10)
  • Celiac Awareness Day (13)
  • Neonatal Nurses Day (15)
  • World Lymphoma Awareness Day (15)
  • Usher Syndrome Awareness Day (15)
  • Global Female Condom Day (16)
  • Clean Hands Week (16-22)
  • Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (16-22)
  • National Rehabilitation Awareness Week (17-23)
  • National HIV/AIDS & Aging Day (18)
  • World Alzheimer’s Day (21)
  • RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) Day (21)
  • Falls Prevention Awareness Day (22)
  • Bisexual Pride Day (23)
  • International Ataxia Awareness Day (25)
  • Women’s Health and Fitness Day (26)
  • Malnutrition Awareness Week (26-30)
  • National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (27)
  • Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion (28)
  • World Rabies Day (28)
  • World Heart Day (29)
  • Family Health and Fitness Day (29)
  • Sport Purple for Platelets Day (30)

Awareness Calendar for August

Month:

  • Alternative Sex Month
  • Anal August
  • Autoinflammatory Awareness
  • Cataract
  • Children’s Eye Health and Safety
  • Dental Implant
  • Gastroparesis
  • Immunization
  • Medic Alert
  • Psoriasis
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Day/week:

  • Minority Donor Awareness Day (1)
  • World Breastfeeding Week (1-7)
  • Grab Some Nuts Day (3)
  • Underwear Day (6)
  • Klippel-Feil Syndrome Awareness Day (6)
  • Severe M.E. Awareness Day (8)
  • National Health Center Week (13-19)
  • Fungal Disease Awareness Week (13-19)
  • National Honey Bee Day (19)
  • Internet Self-Care Day (21)
  • A Day for SJIA (22)
  • Women’s Equality Day (26)

Awareness Calendar for July

July is the awareness month for:

  • Cleft & Craniofacial issues
  • Cord Blood (esp. banking)
  • Eye Injury Prevention
  • Hemochromatosis Screening And Awareness Month
  • International Group B Strep Throat
  • Juvenile Arthritis
  • Minority Mental Health
  • Tickling!
  • UV Safety

Don’t forget these important awareness days, too:

  • Donate Life (8-21)
  • Heterochromia Day (12)
  • Social Media Giving Day (15)
  • Stress Down Day (24)
  • National African American Hepatitis C Action Day (25)
  • World Hepatitis Day (28)
  • World Day against Trafficking in Persons (30)
  • Orgasm Day (31)

Go forth and be awesome!

Awareness Calendar for June

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June is here, and summer is very much upon us. This week, the temperature has been consistently between 85-95 F.

Here is what this month is about:

  • Adult Sex-Ed
  • African-American Music Appreciation
  • Alzheimer’s and brain
  • Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
  • Aphasia
  • Cancer from the Sun
  • Caribbean-American Heritage
  • Cataract
  • Child Vision
  • Childhood Cancer
  • Congenital Cytomegalovirus
  • Hernia
  • Hunger
  • Infertility (world)
  • LGBTQIA+ Pride
  • Men’s Health
  • Migraine & Headache
  • Myasthenia Gravis
  • PTSD
  • Scleroderma
  • Scoliosis
  • Vision Research

Specific days/weeks:

  • World Hypoparathyroidism Awareness Day (1)
  • National Cancer Survivors Day (3)
  • National Headache Awareness Week (4-10)
  • HIV Long-Term Survivors Day (5)
  • Caribbean-American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (8)
  • Cervical Screening Awareness Week (11-17)
  • Men’s Health Week (11-17)
  • World Blood Donor Day (14)
  • Autistic Pride Day (18)
  • World Sickle Cell Day (19)
  • Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week (24-30)
  • National HIV Testing Day (27)

Awareness Calendar for May

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Month:

  • ALS
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma and Allergy
  • Bladder Cancer
  • Brain Cancer
  • Celiac Disease
  • CRPS
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Digestive Diseases
  • Ehlers-Danlos (EDS)
  • Foster Care
  • Hepatitis
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Huntington’s Disease
  • Lyme Disease
  • Lupus
  • Masturbation
  • Melanoma
  • Mental Health
  • Myositis
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Skin Cancer
  • Stroke

Day/week:

  • Asthma (2)
  • Foster Care (2)
  • Barrier Awareness (7)
  • Infertility Survival (7)
  • Stuttering (7-13)
  • Fibromyalgia (12)
  • ME/CFS (12)
  • Neuropathy Awareness Week (second full week)
  • Honor LGBT Elders (16)
  • Hypertension (17)
  • International Day Against Homomisia, Transmisia, and Bimisia (17)
  • HIV Vaccine (18)
  • Hepatitis Testing Day (19)
  • World Autoimmune Arthritis Day (20)
  • Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness (24)
  • Heat Awareness (26)
  • Digestive Health (29)
  • MS (31)

Awareness Calendar for April

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Month:

  • Alcohol
  • Ankylosing Spondylitis
  • Autism
  • Black Women’s History
  • Child Abuse Prevention
  • Deaf History (March 13-April 15)
  • Donate Life
  • Facial Protection
  • Foot Health
  • Humor
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
  • Jazz Appreciation
  • Minority Health
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Oral Cancer
  • Parkinsons
  • Primary Immunodeficiency
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
  • Sports Eye Safety
  • Stress
  • Women’s Eye Health and Safety

Day/week:

  • National Public Health Week (2-8)
  • Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action (5)
  • World Health Day (7)
  • Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (8-15)
  • Minority Cancer Awareness Week (9-15)
  • National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10)
  • World Parkinson’s Day (11)
  • Healthcare Decisions Day (16)
  • Voice Day (16)
  • World Hemophilia Day (17)
  • Transplant Nurses Day (18)
  • Day of Silence (21)
  • National Infertility Awareness Week (23-29)
  • World Immunization Week (23-29)
  • World Meningitis Day (24)
  • World Malaria Day (25)

Awareness Calendar for March

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Month:

  • Black Women In Jazz & The Arts
  • Bleeding Disorders
  • Brain Injury
  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Endometriosis
  • Gender Equality
  • Hemophilia
  • Kidney
  • Multiple Sclerosis Education
  • Self-harm
  • Sleep
  • Trisomy

Day/week:

  • Self-Injury Awareness Day (1)
  • Bone Marrow Failure Awareness Week (1-7)
  • National Aplastic Anemia and MDS Awareness Week (1-7)
  • National Sleep Awareness Week (2-9)
  • Endometriosis Awareness Week (3-9)
  • International Childhood Cancer Awareness Day (7)
  • World Kidney Day (8)
  • National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10)
  • Patient Safety Awareness Week (11-17)
  • Brain Awareness Week (12-18)
  • World Oral Health Day (20)
  • National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (20)
  • World Down Syndrome Day (21)
  • International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21)
  • American Diabetes Association Alert Day (21)
  • World Tuberculosis Day (24)
  • Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness (26)
  • National Doctor’s Day (30)

Awareness Calendar for February

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Month:

  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  • Black History
  • Children’s Dental
  • Heart
  • Low Vision
  • Marfan Syndrome
  • Prenatal Infection Protection
  • Rare Disease
  • Turner Syndrome

Day/week:

  • Wear Red for Women’s Heart Health Day (2)
  • World Cancer Day (4)
  • Burn Awareness Week (4-10)
  • Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (7-14)
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week (13-19)
  • Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day (14)
  • National Donor Day (14)
  • National Condom Day (14)
  • National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day (22)
  • Eating Disorder Awareness Week (26-Mar 4)
  • Rare Disease Day (28)