Communities share credit for disease control

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.

Screening and treatment helped reduce sleeping sickness in affected communities.

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

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.

The WHO finding concerns transmission of onchocerciasis, not the end of all neglected diseases.

Mission 2027 set out a national strategy to expand HPV vaccination, screening and treatment.