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On World Malaria Day, a push to eliminate malaria

05/01/2016

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GENEVA — A year after the World Health Assembly resolved to eliminate malaria from at least 35 countries by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing a World Malaria Day report that shows this goal, though ambitious, is achievable. In 2015, all countries in the WHO European Region reported, for the first time, zero indigenous cases of malaria, down from 90 000 cases in 1995. Outside this region, 8 countries reported zero cases of the disease in 2014:…

Miracle Seeds Feeding the World – Celebrating the 2016 International Year of Pulses

04/30/2016

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Miracle seeds, power food or “poor man’s meat” as they are sometimes called – pulses (beans, lentils, chickpeas and more) are the super food that we have certainly all eaten – but which many of us have never heard of. Perhaps this is why the United Nations General Assembly named 2016 as the “International Year of Pulses” based upon an initiative launched by Pakistan and Turkey. To mark this International Year in Geneva, an extraordinary event in celebration of…