Raising Awareness

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: Living with asthma when you talk for a living!

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: Living with asthma when you talk for a living!

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is observed annually on 24 March to raise awareness about tuberculosis and to commemorate the discovery of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium (M.tb) by Dr Robert Koch in 1882. It aims to educate people about the impact of TB on public health, and encourage governments and organizations to take action towards ending the TB epidemic.

This 28 February, we are proud to support our society partner, The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) and #RareDiseaseDay by shining a spotlight on some of the challenges faced by those living with and managing rare diseases. 

Here at Touch Medical Media, we are supporting World Cancer Day in the second year of the three-year campaign called ‘Close the Care Gap’. In 2022, the theme was all about ‘Realizing the problem’. This year, the focus is on ‘Uniting our voices and taking action’.

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is one of the world’s most serious public health challenges. Since the identification of the virus's causal link to AIDS in 1984, the epidemic has claimed over 40 million lives through AIDS-related illnesses.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are types of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) – a long-term inflammation of the gut that affects men and women.

International Men's Day is an important day to consider men's mental and physical health. It is a day to recognize how some health conditions can affect men and to raise awareness around some of the unique challenges men may face.

touchINFECTIOUS DISEASES avidly supports World Antimicrobial Resistance Week’s campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of AMR and encourage best practices to reduce its spread.