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WHO encourages countries to act now to reduce deaths from viral hepatitis

07/20/2016

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GENEVA– Ahead of World Hepatitis Day, 28 July, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to take rapid action to improve knowledge about the disease, and to increase access to testing and treatment services. Today, only 1 in 20 people with viral hepatitis know they have it. And just 1 in 100 with the disease is being treated.”The world has ignored hepatitis at its peril,” said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. “It is time to mobilize a global…

Launch of Countdown Timer of V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

05/06/2016

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Education, Health and Well-Being

On 5 May 2016, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov launched a 500-day relay horse race, which, having covered the entire country, will finish on the opening day of the 2017 Asian Games at the main arena of the Olympic Village in the capital. At the same time with this, a countdown timer of V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games was launched. In the state historical and cultural reserve “Nisa”, near the walls of ancient fortress, an unprecedented horse…