2012 Disability Awareness Events

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December 2011

• World Aids Awareness Day (1)
• International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3)
• National Aplastic Anemia and MDS Awareness Week (1-7)

January 2012

• National Blood Donor Month
• National Glaucoma Awareness Month
• Cataract Awareness Month
• Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
• National Birth Defects Prevention Month
• Thyroid Awareness Month
• Louis Braille 200th Birthday - creator of the tactile code in use today. (4)
• National Cancer Consciousness Week (3rd week of January)

February

• Heart Month
• AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
• Dental Health Month
• National Wear Red Day (1)
• National Donor Day ()
• National Eating Disorders Awareness Week ()
• International Rare Disease Day 2011
• Leprosy Prevention and Control Week ()

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