Elimination does not mean that risk can be ignored

Publication date: PAHO reported input from 280 midwives and community health agents to the manual.

Publication date: PAHO used the Global Indigenous Youth Forum to explain health knowledge dialogues.

Bangladesh became the first country to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis as a public health problem.

After its filariasis milestone, Bangladesh reached the WHO threshold for kala-azar.

Case detection, treatment and monitoring were essential to the elimination programme.

Publication date: WHO announced an agreement with the Indian Ministry of Ayush.

The agreement included developing benchmarks for training and practice in the South Indian Siddha system.

The WHO–India cooperation includes training material on herbal product quality and safety.

WHO described an international herbal pharmacopoeia among the planned five-year activities.

The country received WHO certification after interrupting indigenous malaria transmission.