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The meaning of World Health Day in Afghanistan
UN Calling Asia - a weekly magazine programme, in English, that keeps you in touch with UN developments covering Asia and the Pacific
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World Health Day is observed every year on April 7th. Peter Graaf, the World Health Organization Representative in Afghanistan, says the World Health Day theme this year, "Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies," is particularly relevant to Afghanistan for two reasons...
UNHCR welcomes release of Solecki
John Solecki
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) this week celebrated the release of one of its officials who had been kidnapped in Pakistan. John Solecki, head of UNHCR's office in the southern city of Quetta, was freed on March 28th by the group which had abducted him in February. Dianne Penn reports.
The secret to long life told by Japanese centenarians
Japanese centenarians
How many people expect to live beyond the age of 100. Not too many, probably. But in Japan so many aare hitting that magic number that scientists have begun searching for the secret of life in what they call "the wisdom years". UN Television's Daljit Dhaliwal has the story.
Producer: Gerry Adams
