Events: Jul 2018

World Population Day

11 July 2018
Events
World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11...

8th annual DevelopmentxChange event for Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development.

26 July 2018
Press and media
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Norway (Norad), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada), the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (...

World Hepatitis Day

28 July 2018
Events
World Hepatitis Day takes places every year on 28 July bringing the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. Worldwide, 300 million people are living with viral hepatitis unaware. Without finding the undiagnosed and...