A neglected disease receives medicine-access support

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.

A partnership aimed to make paediatric benznidazole more accessible.

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

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.

At the Kumasi celebration, pharmacy lecturer Isaac Kingsley Amponsah urged stronger regulation to check herbal product quality and safety.

The celebration highlighted collaboration between researchers and traditional health practitioners to investigate efficacy and quality.