World Blood Donor Day 2019

14 June 2019

WBDD19

Safe Blood for all

This World Blood Donor Day WHO is calling for safe blood for all. The moment you donate blood, you are helping to provide safe blood for all, MAKE A DATE TO GIVE. Donate blood. Save lives.

 

This year, World Blood Donor Day will once again be celebrated around the world on 14 June. The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and also to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure that all individuals and communities have access to affordable and timely supplies of safe and quality-assured blood and blood products, as an integral part of universal health coverage and a key component of effective health systems.


Message of the WHO Regional Director for Africa

On 14 June every year, the African Region joins the global community to celebrate World Blood Donor Day. The theme of this year’s campaign focuses on blood donation and universal access to safe blood transfusion as a means of achieving universal health coverage. This theme strongly encourages more people all over the world to become blood donors and donate blood regularly. Read the full message