August 2008

Calendar of Health- & Injury-Related Days in 2008

Special Events for the Month of August
Special Events for the Week

August 1-7 World Breastfeeding Week: Mother Support : Going for the Gold.
http://www.waba.org.my/

Special Events for the Day
August 9 International Day of the Indigenous People
http://www.unac.org

August 12 International Youth Day
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/index.asp

August 23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Source: Health Canada