The Australian Dental Association promotes Dental Health Week to focus on the importance of taking steps to care for your teeth and gums to help you to keep your teeth and smile for life.

The ADA’s main oral health messages and the four key messages of the DHW campaign aim to reinforce the importance of maintaining good oral health to keep your teeth for life. Dental Health Week campaign aims to reinforce the importance of maintaining good oral health, with the four key messages being:

1. Brush your teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste.
2. Clean between your teeth daily using floss of interdental brushes.
3. Eat a healthy, balanced diet and limit added sugar intake.
4. Visit the dentist regularly for check-ups and preventative care.

Australians should expect to keep their teeth for their lifetime and practising the four key messages above can help people to reach this goal. People do not expect to lose a limb so why expect to lose their teeth?

Get involved this August by:

• Maintaining good oral care
• Visiting your dentist if needed
• Raising awareness on social media
• Informing the community

For more information, visit:
https://www.ada.org.au/Dental-Health-Week/Home

World Breastfeeding Week aims to protect, promote and support breastfeeding as the best way to provide newborns with the nutrients they need. The 2022 campaign will focus on strengthening the capacity of actors that have to protect, promote and support breastfeeding across different levels of society.

Objectives of World Breastfeeding Week include:

• Inform people about the importance of protecting breastfeeding
• Anchor breastfeeding support as a vital public health responsibility
• Engage with individuals and organisations for greater impact​
• Galvanise with individuals and organisations for greater impact​

Get involved this August by:

• Raising awareness on social media
• Educating the community
• Organising a fundraiser
• Donating to the foundation

For more information, visit: http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/

DonateLife Week is a key part of the Australian Government’s national reform program to increase organ and tissue donation and transplantation outcomes. Each year, events are held across Australia during DonateLife Week to encourage all Australians to register their donation decision and to discuss their donation decisions with their loved ones.

Get involved this July by:

• Signing up to be an organ donar
• Registering for a donation
• Raising awareness on social media
• Informing family and friends

For more information, visit: http://www.donatelife.gov.au/donatelife-week

‘Go Yellow Anywhere for Sarcoma Awareness’ this July for Sarcoma Awareness Month in support of the sarcoma community.This year’s theme ‘Go Yellow Anywhere for Sarcoma Awareness’ highlights the word ‘anywhere’ as sarcoma is a really unique cancer that can form anywhere in the body.

In 2021, it is estimated that 2,035 new cases of soft tissue sarcoma will be diagnosed in Australia (1,155 males and 880 females).

Get involved this July by:

• Making a donation
• Fundraising through an activity
• Volunteering
• Raising awareness in the community
• Gathering support on social media

For more information, visit:
https://sarcoma.org.au/news/events/july-is-sarcoma-awareness-month

Scleroderma, also known as Systemic Sclerosis, is a rare autoimmune disease that turns simple daily activities into real challenges. June 29 is World Scleroderma Day, an initiative to raise awareness about the severeness of this disease.

Scleroderma is a chronic disease of the connective tissue, immune and vascular systems, and presents a major diagnostic and management problem for patients and their physicians. It is life-threatening and currently has no cure.

“Anyone can develop scleroderma, but it is more common between the ages of 30 and 60, and three times more likely in females. There are estimated to be over 5,000 Australians living with scleroderma.” (1)

Get involved this June by:

• Raising awareness on social media
• Making a donation to the foundation
• Volunteering

For more information, visit: 
https://www.sclerodermaaustralia.com.au/
http://worldsclerodermaday.org/

27 June is PTSD Awareness Day. Phoenix Australia aims to raise awareness about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the impact of trauma, because if more people know about PTSD, then more sufferers can get the help they need.Trauma can have a devastating effect on people’s lives.  Anyone of us can be affected and the psychological impacts can be deep and complex.

Not everyone who experiences trauma will develop PTSD, but about 5-10% of Australians will suffer from PTSD at some point in their lives. That means that at any one time over 1 million Australians have PTSD.

Get involved this June by:

• Raising awareness on social media
• Making a donation to the foundation
• Volunteering

For more information , visit :

PTSD Awareness Day

Every year the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations celebrates 21 June as the global day of recognition of ALS/MND – a disease that affects people in every country of the globe. Motor neurone disease (MND) is a global problem. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity or demographic.

It is estimated that in Australia, at any one time, around 2,100 people are living with MND. Every day two people are diagnosed with MND in Australia and two people die from the disease.

Globally, over 400,000 people are currently living with MND. MND affects people from every country and ethnicity in the world. 

Get involved this June by:

• Volunteering with the foundation
• Raising awareness on social media
• Informing family and friends

For more information, visit: 
https://www.mndresearch.org.au/MND-Australia-archive/Global-Day.aspx

Red Apple Day (Wednesday, 15 June 2022) is Bowel Cancer Australia’s Annual Giving Day, when Australians are encouraged to support the vital work of the charity. If you’ve ever thought about raising funds and awareness for bowel cancer, then Red Apple Day is the time to do it! Host an apple themed virtual brunch, morning or afternoon tea, dinner or evening catch-up. 

Bowel cancer claims the lives of 101 Australians every week (5,255 people a year) – but it’s one of the most treatable types of cancer if found early.

Get involved this June by:

Organising a fundraiser
Raising awareness on social media
Purchasing merchandise

For more information, visit:
https://www.bowelcanceraustralia.org/bowel-cancer-awareness-month#RedAppleDay

Every year countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) on 14th June. The event serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood.

Transfusion of blood and blood products helps save millions of lives every year.

A blood service that gives patients access to safe blood and blood products in sufficient quantity is a key component of an effective health system. The global theme of World Blood Donor Day changes each year in recognition of the selfless individuals who donate their blood for people unknown to them.

To get involved in this initiative:

• Volunteer to make a blood donation
• Raise awareness on social media
• Organise a blood donation drive
• Inform your family and community members

For more information, visit:

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-blood-donor-day

Haemochromatosis Awareness Week runs 1-7 June each year. This week allows a time to focus attention on haemochromatosis and for people to raise awareness of the condition in the community. Haemochromatosis is diagnosed far too late for many people. Many people struggle for years with unexplained symptoms while the condition is overlooked.

“Haemochromatosis is the most common genetic disorder in Australia.” (

People with haemochromatosis absorb too much iron from their diet.  Over time this leads to iron overload. If undetected and untreated, the excess iron can cause organ or tissue damage and can potentially result in premature death.

Join the action this June by:

• Raising awareness on social media
• Making a donation
• Putting up posters about the cause

For more information, visit:
https://haemochromatosis.org.au/whw/