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  World First Aid Day is an event of the Global First Aid Reference Centre. The opportunity is to highlight and promote first aid awareness through campaigns mobilizing the volunteers and the general public.   Each year, Global First Aid Reference Centre provides concepts to National Societies to optimize and impact through their communication to encourage awareness of first aid.   The theme of 2022's World First Day is "Lifelong First Aid," to promote the importance of having lifelong learning of first aid irrespective of skills, age, or knowledge. It helps to create healthier and safer communities. Everyone from every community should have a quality education on first aid. The commitment to learning lifelong first aid can make everyone more resilient and prepare for anything coming their way. First aid history The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or IFRC inaugurated World First Aid Day in 2000. Still, the history dates back t

  Menopause starts at the time when women's menstrual cycles end. Menopause is not a health condition, disease, or disorder. The menstrual period for women roughly begins from the age of 12 and ends in their 40s or 50s. Menopause happens when a woman has had no menstrual period for over 12 months. The average age for menopause to begin will be 52 . It occurs in every woman's lifetime, a natural biological process. Some women may develop menopause during certain surgeries.   Causes for menopause Women are naturally born with eggs in their ovaries. Their ovaries make the hormones like estrogen and progesterone that directly controls their menstruation and the eggs' ovulations. When the functioning of the eggs stops, women undergo menopause. Women have around 400,000 eggs by their first menstruation and about 10,000 eggs during their menopause begin. Most eggs die off by a natural process called atresia.   Follicle-stimulating hormone, a.k.a FSH, is a substance respo