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Fighting liver disease in the desert because this conference

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In Forlì, from all over Italy, Saturday, March 21, volunteers from the Federation of Liver- Pool meeting in the second national conference

The conference on "Desert. And they call it peace. Volunteer against liver disease in the world "will be held on the morning of Saturday, March 21, 2009, 8:00 pm, at the hall" M. Pieratelli "Hospital" GB Morgagni "in Forlì. Will address issues concerning the health of the Sahara and initiatives against viral hepatitis in poor countries and among the Sahrawi refugees in the Algerian desert. Projects supported by the Emilia-Romagna, the Municipality of Forlì, Forlì by the Association for diseases of the liver (Afmf) and the International Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP).
"The meeting will gather in Forlì delegations of volunteers from fourteen Italian regions," says the prof. Enrico Ricci, director of the department of medicine and specialist of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital of Forlì "was born from the collaboration of our department with the city of Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, the Afmf and the National Federation of voluntary associations for liver disease and liver transplantation, the Liverpool, which organized the event. "
"The conference will involve participation of speakers of great prestige," continues Dr. Salvatore Ricca Rosellini, President of the Liver-Pool dell'Afmf and promoter of the conference "among them, Vanni Beltrami, physician, traveler, Africanist, professor emeritus of clinical surgery of the University La Sapienza of Rome and director of the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, which will give a reading on health among the nomads of the Sahara; Luciano Slater, who taught sociology at the University of Algiers and is president of the National Solidarity with the Saharawi people, but will address the history of the desert people, and Giuliana Laschi, professor of history of international relations at the University of Bologna, will discuss the political issue of Western Sahara. "
Nicole Dent will also participate in the conference, on global health policy consultant and a founding member of the Italian Observatory on Global Health, who will speak about the challenge to care in poor countries and Claudio Puoti, the Italian Association for the Study of the liver, will speak on the issue of hepatitis in developing countries. In addition, Alfonso Mele, Institute of Health and related national and institutional epidemiology viral hepatitis, present the results of vaccination against hepatitis B in Italy and worldwide. Among the speakers and moderators, Maria Grazia Stagni, AUSL health director, John Bucci, Councillor for International Relations of the Municipality, Claudio Cancellieri, Director of the Department of Infectious and Daniela Valpiani of the Centre for voluntary work and solidarity "G. Donati AUSL. Giulia Olmi, the CISP of Rome, will report on humanitarian aid and projects for the Sahrawi camps and Ricca Rosellini tell the long-standing commitment to the campaign forlivese viral hepatitis among refugees. Omar Mih, Italian representative of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi Arab Republic Democratic talk about the choice of peace for his people.
"The conference, which is also called upon the citizens, which will be opened by the Mayor of Forlì Nadia Masini, the Director-General Claudio Mazzoni AUSL and Enrico Ricci 'ends Ricca Rosellini" will be closed by the intervention of Zoffoli Damiano, President Commission for Economic Policy of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna. "