WHO announces support for child Chagas treatment

Immunization complements clean water, hygiene, and treatment of dehydration.

The results of a ring-vaccination study in Guinea showed high protection against Ebola.

Participants, health workers and contact-tracing teams made the outbreak trial possible.

The trial offered vaccine to people linked to new Ebola cases to study whether infection could be prevented.

The published results came after the major outbreak and informed later prevention efforts.

Early detection and therapy are important for infected children in affected regions.

The announcement focused on supply and access, not a claim that Chagas had been eradicated.

The WHO arrangement sought to help health systems obtain treatment for children.

Ghana held the sixteenth African Traditional Medicine Day celebration in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, on this date.

The Ghana celebration chose local manufacturing of traditional medicine products in Africa as its theme.