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Pass the message: Five steps to kicking out COVID-19

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GENEVA - FIFA, the international governing body of football, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) by launching a new awareness campaign led by world-renowned footballers, who are calling on all people around the world to follow five key steps to stop the spread of the disease. The “Pass the message to kick out coronavirus” campaign promotes five key steps for people to follow to protect their health in line with WHO guidance, focused on hand washing, coughing etiquette, not touching your face, physical distance and staying home if feeling unwell. “FIFA and its President Gianni Infantino have been actively involved in passing the message against this pandemic since the very beginning,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the virtual launch of the campaign at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. “Be it through campaigns or funding, FIFA has stood up to the coronavirus, and I am delighted that world ...

'Battle in the Blood' to premier at 2018 Int'l AIDS Conference

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"Battle in the Blood," a mobile HIV/AIDS advocacy game app for HIV prevention, will have its world premiere launching at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on July 23-27. The World Health Organization (WHO) organized the global networking zone event “Building Bridges to HIV Prevention and Testing” as part of the Global Village and Youth Programme Activities of the conference. WHO, together with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Council of Churches-Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA), UNITAID, PSI and SheDecides, will join forces to raise awareness in order to make HIV testing a reality for all. The WHO invited the HIV GET Project team to present and launch the mobile game app "Battle in the Blood" during the conference. It will have several session activities at Global Village, including a "Battle in the Blood" Game Challenge. Conference participants, mainly the youth, will be...