World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day is held on 1 December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988.Every year World AIDS Day events take place across the country to raise awareness and show support for people living with HIV.

More than 90,000 people are currently living with HIV in the UK and globally an estimated 33.3 million people have HIV. More than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007 have died from the virus, making it one of the most destructive pandemics in history.
Today, many scientific advances have been made in HIV treatment, there are laws to protect people living with HIV and we understand so much more about the condition. But despite this, people do not know the facts about how to protect themselves and others from HIV, and stigma and discrimination remain a reality for many people living with HIV. World AIDS Day is important as it reminds the public and Government that HIV has not gone away – there is still a vital need to raise money, increase awareness, fight prejudice and improve education.

International Osteoporosis Day 20th October

For this year’s World Osteoporosis Day (October 20), IOF calls on the public and health professionals around the world to take action for bone health and osteoporosis prevention. The global campaign, launched in more than six languages, urges people of all ages to take three essential steps to set a strong foundation for healthy bones and muscles:

1. Ensure you have enough vitamin D intake (through safe exposure to sunlight, diet, and supplementation if required, particularly if you are over 60)
2. Eat a calcium and protein-rich diet
3. Keep active with daily weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening physical activity

Osteoporosis is often called a ‘silent disease’ because it has few symptoms. However, unless the disease is treated, the skeleton becomes progressively weaker and more fragile, leaving people at serious risk of debilitating fractures.

Around the world, at least one in three women and one in five men over the age of fifty will suffer a fracture caused by weak bones. Fractures result in pain, debilitation and loss of quality of life. One in three seniors who suffers a hip fracture becomes physically impaired and loses his or her ability to live independently. At least one in five will die within a year of the fracture. Vertebral (spine) fractures can cause extreme pain, long or short term disability, dowager’s hump, and significant loss in quality of life. Without treatment, the risk of suffering new fractures is high.

Make sure you take action for your bone health! Osteoporosis and fracture prevention must be a priority for us all.

Osteoporosis report pdf click here

Contact details for International Osteoporosis Foundation address phone fax & website

Name:	International Osteoporosis Foundation
	(INF)
Address:	9, rue Juste-Olivier
	Nyon
	CH-1260
	Switzerland
Telephone:	22 994 0100
Fax:	22 994 0101
Website:	www.iofbonehealth.org

About International Osteoporosis Foundation - INF

Established in 1998, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is a registered not for profit organization dedicated to:

• motivating - individuals to take action to diagnose, prevent and treat osteoporosis
• raising - awareness and increasing understanding of osteoporosis
• supporting - osteoporosis societies throughout the world in order to maximize their effectiveness

Activities of the International Osteoporosis Foundation include:

• nurturing and expanding the International Osteoporosis Foundation network of osteoporosis societies worldwide
• promoting - innovations within the medical community and improving care
• lobbying - for changes to policy in countries throughout the world with the aim for diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis to become standard
• expanding partnerships with other organizations working in similar fields to the the IOF

World Heart Day 29 September

World Heart Day was created in 2000 to inform people around the globe that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading cause of death, claiming 17.1 million lives each year.
Together with its members, the World Heart Federation spreads the news that at least 80% of premature deaths from heart disease and stroke could be avoided if the main risk factors, tobacco, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, are controlled.
World Heart Day will take place on 29 September each year.

National activities such as public talks and screenings, walks and runs, concerts or sporting events  are organized worldwide by members and partners of the World Heart Federation.
In 2010, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of World Heart Day the World Heart Federation launched the ‘State of the Heart’ CVD Report.



Contact details for World Heart Federation address phone fax & website

Name:	World Heart Federation
	(WHF)
Address:	7, rue des Battoirs
	Switzerland
Telephone:	(+41 22) 807 03 20
Fax:	(+41 22) 807 03 39
Website:	www.worldheart.org

About World Heart Federation - WHF

The World Heart Federation helps people achieve a better and longer life through prevention and control of heart disease and stroke.
Activities, programs and campaigns run by the World Heart Federation include:

• World Heart Day
• Go Red For Women
• Children and Youth
• Workplace Wellness
• Sesame Workshop
• Advocacy
• China - Bridging the Gap

World No Tobacco Day

31 May 2011 marks the World No Tobacco Day and following the leadership of the World Health Organization (WHO) anti-smoking initiatives all around the globe are driving home an urgent message: Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death today. Every year 5.4 million people worldwide die of tobacco-related cancer or cardio-vascular illnesses. Unless action is taken now, that figure is likely to increase to more than 8 million a year by 2030.
The link between tobacco and lung cancer is conclusive. Yet in spite of growing awareness in many countries, a WHO report published earlier this year showed that governments around the world continue to collect up to 500 times more money in tobacco taxes each year than they spend on anti-tobacco efforts. And not one country has fully implemented all six internationally agreed key tobacco control measures at the highest level. The report also revealed that the smoking epidemic is shifting to the developing world where, by 2030, 80 percent of tobacco-related deaths are expected to occur.

 first no tobacco day poster.
Join the Cause..... quit Tobacco products today...........

Womens Day Special

International Womens Day, we present before you 'SNEHASPARSHAM' along with IMA Calicut for Kudumbasree-India's largest Women Empowerment Organisation. We will be conducting 9 weeks camp for nearly 450 Kudumbasree employees free of cost.

Panchakarma Therapy Course

Panchakarma Therapy CourseMH Academy in association with Ignou - Oleena Community College started Certificate course in Ayaurveda Panchakarma Therapy. The aim of the course is to help youngsters grow a career in Panchakarma .