The theme for 2024 is Tackling Chagas disease: Detect early and care for life, to increase public awareness of Chagas disease and secure greater funding and support for early diagnosis and comprehensive follow-up care initiatives.

World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine-preventable diseases. The goal of World Immunization Week is for more children, adults – and their communities – to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases, allowing them to live happier, healthier lives. This year World Immunization Week will celebrate 50 years of the Essential Programme on Immunization (EPI).

The theme of World TB Day 2024 - ‘Yes! We can end TB!’ – conveys a message of hope that getting back-on-track to turn the tide against the TB epidemic is possible through high level leadership, increased investments and faster uptake of new WHO recommendations. Following the commitments made by Heads of State to accelerate progress to end TB Following the

World Leprosy Day (WLD) is celebrated on the last Sunday of January. In 2024, World Leprosy Day is Sunday 28 January. This international day is an opportunity to celebrate people who have experienced leprosy, raise awareness of the disease, and call for an end to leprosy-related stigma and discrimination.

This year’s theme was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.

The theme for World Health Day 2024, celebrated on 7 April, is 'My health, my right’. It was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.

2023 year’s World Rabies Day theme is: “All for 1, One Health for all”

World Patient Safety Day 2023 will be observed on 17 September under the theme Engaging patients for patient safety, in recognition of the crucial role patients, families and caregivers play in the safety of health care.

When: 1 March 2023, 13:00 – 14:00 CET. As part of the WHO EPI-WIN webinar series on influenza, this event will focus on influenza vaccines, such as what is important for seasonal influenza vaccines to be effective, and vaccine virus candidates for avian influenza.