World Haemophilia Day 2023: It is observed on 17th April and the day was started by the World Federation of Haemophilia (WHF). An effort for better diagnosis and access to care for those people who remain without treatment, to raise funds for the people who are suffering from this disease and are not able to afford treatment.
It also provides an opportunity to discuss the disease with friends, family, colleagues, etc., and to support the patients suffering from Haemophilia disease.
What is Haemophilia?
Haemophilia is a genetic disease i.e. it can be caused by parents to a child. Usually, this disease is more common in males. Chromosomes are the carriers of this disease and as a result, blood does not clot due to which bleeding occurs.
Patients suffering from Haemophilia disease lack a protein in the blood, which is also called a clotting factor. This protein works with the platelets to stop bleeding at the site of an injury. That is after an injury a person bleeds for a longer time and also they are more susceptible to internal bleeding. If bleeding is high then it can be deadly.
World Haemophilia Day 2023: Theme
The World Hemophilia Federation will celebrate World Hemophilia Day this year on the theme “Access for All: Prevention of Bleeds as the Global Standard of Care.”
The theme of World Haemophilia Day 2021 is “Adapting to change: sustaining care in a new world”. Living during a pandemic can pose several challenges, not only for our health but also for our mental health and well-being. This year the day is a platform across the world for exploring the community’s resilience and how we will overcome this new challenge as we have overcome other challenges in the past.
The theme of 30th World Haemophilia Day 2020 is “Get + Involved”. The theme encourages patients, family members or caregivers, corporate partners, a volunteer, healthcare providers, etc. to help increase awareness about Haemophilia disease an inherited bleeding disorder, and an urge to make access to adequate care possible everywhere in the world.
The theme of the 29th World Haemophilia Day 2019 was “Outreach and Identification”. To concentrate on reaching out and identifying new members of the bleeding disorders community.
