Kumasi gathering calls for practitioner–researcher cooperation

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.

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

A WHO Africa report dated African Traditional Medicine Day describes assurances to Nigerian traditional medicine practitioners about protecting their intellectual property.

The Nigerian discussion emphasized that medicinal knowledge belongs to practitioners and requires appropriate protection when used in research or production.

An official discussion connected traditional practitioners with national health policy on African Traditional Medicine Day.

The day’s reporting foregrounded the rights of knowledge holders whose practices and recipes could otherwise be appropriated.

At a UN high-level meeting, governments set targets to expand TB prevention and care.