World Sepsis Day – 13 September

Sepsis is a serious condition in which the body responds improperly to an infection. The infection-fighting processes turn on the body, causing the organs to work poorly. Sepsis may progress to septic shock. This is a dramatic drop in blood pressure that can damage the lungs, kidneys, liver and other organs. […]

World Polio Day – 24 October

World Polio Day highlights the global efforts to end poliomyelitis (polio) worldwide. Polio is a life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus, which the World Health Assembly committed to eradicate in 1988. The WHO European Region was declared polio-free in 2002 and has sustained this status every year since then. Every […]

World Hepatitis Day – 28 July

ELIMINATE HEPATITIS The elimination of viral hepatitis has now been firmly put on the map. At the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva, 194 governments adopted WHO’s Global Strategy on Viral Hepatitis, which includes a goal of eliminating hepatitis B and C in the next 13 years. The community responded […]

Journée mondiale de lutte contre la polio – 24 octobre

La poliomyélite est une infection grave du système nerveux qui présente comme complications possibles : la paralysie, des dommages musculaires et la malformation du squelette. Le poliovirus se transmet de personne à personne, par des aliments et par de l’eau contaminée. La maladie touche principalement les enfants de moins de […]