Awareness Calendar for April

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On the first of each month, I post a collection of awareness dates curated from across the internetz. While US-centric, many awareness events are global.

Month:

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

Day/week:

  • National Public Health Week (1-7)
  • RAINN Day of Action (4)
  • World Health Day (7)
  • Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (7-14)
  • Minority Cancer Awareness Week (9-15)
  • Siblings (10)
  • National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10)
  • World Parkinson’s Day (11)
  • International Functional Neurological Disease [FND] Awareness Day (13)
  • Healthcare Decisions Day (16)
  • Voice Day (16)
  • World Hemophilia Day (17)
  • Transplant Nurses Day (17)
  • Day of Silence (21)
  • National Infertility Awareness Week (21-27)
  • World Primary Immunodeficiency Week (22-29)
  • World Immunization Week (23-29)
  • World Meningitis Day (24)
  • World Malaria Day (25)
  • World Penguin Day! (25)
  • MS Awareness Week (25)
  • National Infant Immunization Week (26-May 3)