Historical Organization
World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa
World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa
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Organization Timeline
African regional health meeting ends in Brazzaville
đź“… 31 August 2007The fifty-seventh WHO Regional Committee for Africa concluded on this date, reporting a declaration on traditional medicine.
Traditional medicine appears in African health diplomacy
📅 31 August 2007The meeting’s reported declaration brought traditional care into a regional health ministers’ agenda.
Regional health ministers consider traditional practice
📅 31 August 2007WHO’s report of the Brazzaville meeting documents a policy discussion involving African traditional medicine.
African committee records a medicine declaration
📅 31 August 2007The committee’s closing report includes traditional medicine among its official regional outcomes.
WHO reports African medicine policy discussion
📅 9 September 2013Publication date: WHO described health ministers’ regional decisions covering traditional medicine as well as women’s health and other priorities.
African health ministers address traditional medicine
đź“… 9 September 2013Publication date: WHO reported that its regional committee endorsed a report on traditional medicine.
Traditional knowledge enters wider African health planning
đź“… 9 September 2013Publication date: the regional committee report treated traditional care alongside public health systems and other concerns.
Regional health meeting frames medicine as policy issue
đź“… 9 September 2013Publication date: decisions recorded by WHO concerned governance and planning, not clinical endorsement of any remedy.
Benin’s president opens African health meeting in Cotonou
đź“… 3 November 2014WHO reports President Boni Yayi addressing the regional committee on this date during a debate on stronger health systems.
Benin leader calls for cooperation across medical systems
đź“… 3 November 2014At the Cotonou meeting, Boni Yayi asked African countries to consider conventional and traditional medicine in health cooperation.
Traditional medicine appears in epidemic-era policy discussion
đź“… 3 November 2014The 2014 regional health meeting considered inherited care within a broader call to strengthen systems facing epidemics.
African health debate includes South–South cooperation
đź“… 3 November 2014The Benin president connected traditional and conventional care with partnerships among countries of the Global South.