Malawi helps generate real-world vaccine evidence

Delegates placed community-based primary care at the centre of health-system plans.

The conference emphasized equity, access and cooperation across sectors.

Children began receiving the RTS,S vaccine through a routine immunization pilot.

The pilot tested how to provide a new prevention tool through existing health services.

RTS,S supplemented other preventive measures such as insecticide-treated nets.

Publication date: WHO released its Global Report on Traditional and Complementary Medicine 2019 to address gaps in official country data.

Publication date: the WHO report summarized contributions from 179 member states, showing a global rather than single-country history.

Publication date: WHO described its report as the first to cover these three facets of traditional medicine together.

Publication date: compiling official national information made it easier to compare policies and research needs across countries.

WHO reports that the seventeenth observance in Ghana took place on 3 September 2019.