A vaccination launch begins a longer programme

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.

The programme sought to prevent HPV infections associated with cervical cancer.

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

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.

India had to document sustained interruption of wild polio transmission before regional certification.

A ceremony at Kanyinya marked the start of vaccination for school-age girls.