Burundi eliminates trachoma as a public health problem

Publication date: director João Paulo Souza presented a library still under development, months before its official launch.

Publication date: WHO described efforts to set a global research agenda for traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.

Publication date: prioritizing research highlights gaps in knowledge about safety, effectiveness and health system use.

Publication date: the WHO initiative examines traditional medicine across regions instead of treating any one system as universal.

Publication date: the global research priorities aim to guide studies and data collection for informed policy.

The strategy includes antibiotics, eye care and improved hygiene and environment.

The country became another WHO African Region state validated for trachoma elimination.

Burundi must continue to protect gains and care for people with complications.

New guidelines offered lenacapavir as an additional pre-exposure prophylaxis option.

The medicine can reduce the number of doses needed compared with daily oral PrEP.