⇒ World Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year on 14 June.
World Blood Donor Day is observed 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.
- Mexico hosted World Blood Donor Day 2022 through its National Blood Centre. The global event was held in Mexico City.
Theme:
WBDD 2022 Theme: “Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the efforts and save lives”.
For 2022, the World Blood Donor Day slogan was “Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and save lives”, to draw attention to the roles that voluntary blood donations play in saving lives and enhancing solidarity within communities.
Background:
- World Blood Donor Day was established in 2004 by the World Health Organization (WHO). It later was declared an Annual Global event during the 58th World Health Assembly held in 2005.
- June 14 also marks the birth anniversary of Karl Landsteiner who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1930 for his work in classifying blood types.
» The Day was created to:
raise global awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion; highlight the critical contribution voluntary, unpaid blood donors make to national health systems; support national blood transfusion services, blood donor organizations and other nongovernmental organizations in strengthening and expanding their voluntary blood donor programmes by reinforcing national and local campaigns.