Guinean health services track a neglected disease

Publication date: WHO described a workshop on improving access to quality traditional medicine services.

Publication date: WHO said representatives from 11 countries and areas in five regions took part in its workshop.

Publication date: participants considered education and training as part of safer traditional medicine service delivery.

Publication date: discussions covered policy frameworks, quality and safety alongside service delivery.

WHO validated elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.

The WHO finding concerns the gambiense form and a public health threshold.

WHO recognized Guinea’s sustained national effort and local participation.

WHO confirmed elimination of onchocerciasis transmission in Niger.

Long-term treatment and surveillance helped stop transmission of river blindness.

Niger joined countries in the Americas that had already achieved WHO verification.