Elimination has a defined public health threshold

Publication date: WHO said 39 countries had established frameworks regulating traditional medicine practitioners.

Publication date: the WHO message described 34 research institutes in 26 countries focused on quality, safety and efficacy.

Bangladesh achieved elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.

Large-scale treatment and monitoring reduced lymphatic filariasis in affected communities.

Health workers used repeated medicine campaigns in areas where the infection had circulated.

On this date the Assembly agreed to extend WHO’s 2014–2023 strategy for two years, until 2025.

The extension allowed time to develop a new global policy approach to traditional medicine.

The Assembly’s decision made traditional medicine a matter for continuing international health policy.

The 2023 resolution extended a strategy; it did not establish clinical effectiveness of particular traditional treatments.

Publication date: a PAHO story described how ancestral birth knowledge and modern clinical tools can be brought into dialogue.