A lot of health issues are genetic, and we are very less informed about it. One of them being Thalassemia. Therefore, in order to spread awareness of the issue, World Thalassemia Day is celebrated every year on the 8th of May. There are some objectives that are set up every year in order to mark this day. Let us know more about what the condition is and what are the major points we must take care of.

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What is the Theme for World Thalassemia Day 2020?

This year, the Thalassemia International Federation has kept the theme of the day dedicated to the treatment of the condition, the theme is, “The dawning of a new era for thalassemia: Time for a global effort to make novel therapies accessible and affordable to patients”.

What is Thalassemia?

It is a genetic blood disorder in which the body produces an abnormal form of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the molecule present in red blood cells which is responsible for carries oxygen. The disorder results in excessive loss of red blood cells (RBCs), which tends to anemia. In Anemia, your body doesn’t have sufficient normal, healthy red blood cells. Thalassemia is genetic, it means that one of your parents must be a carrier of this disorder.

World Thalassemia Day was established by the World Health Organization in order to raise public awareness about the disease, its prevention measures, and measures to avoid its transmission to other people.

According to several statistics reports, approx 19% of the total population is the carrier of the Thalassemia gene. Thus World Thalassemia Day is celebrated as a big event by organizing a kind of preventive program to increase awareness and reduce the spread of the genetic disease.

The event celebration encourages and promotes the common public for pre-marriage tests to reduce the genetic problems among families. The 8th of May has become a very special day for the people who are suffering from thalassemia as the day brings a chance for them to get diagnosed earlier.

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What Objectives have been set for World Thalassemia Day 2020?

There are certain objectives of raising awareness on certain topics have been set for the World Thalassemia Day 2020, these are as follows:

• On Thalassemia, its symptoms, and ways to live with it.

• Raising awareness on the importance of consulting a doctor before marriage if a person has thalassemia.

• Raising awareness on the importance of vaccinations for children’s health, society, and the whole world.

• Redressing misconceptions about vaccinations.

The World Thalassemia Day 2020 is dedicated to celebrate the thalassemia patients and give them a chance to live like normal people as well as how they can prevent the disease to spread in the society, community, state, country, and the world.

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