Cancer prevention reaches Bhutanese girls

The fifty-seventh WHO Regional Committee for Africa concluded on this date, reporting a declaration on traditional medicine.

The meeting’s reported declaration brought traditional care into a regional health ministers’ agenda.

WHO’s report of the Brazzaville meeting documents a policy discussion involving African traditional medicine.

The committee’s closing report includes traditional medicine among its official regional outcomes.

The government and partners announced that girls and young women would begin receiving vaccine that day.

Bhutan’s national vaccination effort combined health planning with outreach to young people.

The 6 May start was the beginning of a multi-dose rollout, not proof of cancer elimination.

The last reported case was a child in West Bengal whose illness began on 13 January.

The date marks onset of illness in India’s final known wild poliovirus infection.

Immunization workers continued surveillance and vaccination after the last detected case.