A 2013 report documents a national first

The 2012 event notice linked the annual observance to changes affecting practitioners, practices and products.

The tenth observance provided a dated point in ongoing African discussion of traditional care.

A dated epidemiological report describes verification that onchocerciasis transmission had ended in Colombia.

Years of treatment with ivermectin and surveillance preceded the first national verification.

Onchocerciasis, carried by black flies, can cause skin disease and loss of vision.

Publication date: WHO described health ministers’ regional decisions covering traditional medicine as well as women’s health and other priorities.

Publication date: WHO reported that its regional committee endorsed a report on traditional medicine.

Publication date: the regional committee report treated traditional care alongside public health systems and other concerns.

Publication date: decisions recorded by WHO concerned governance and planning, not clinical endorsement of any remedy.

Publication date: a WHO report from Lichinga described discussions about traditional care and its relation to institutional medicine.