Nigeria discusses practitioners’ intellectual property rights

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.

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.

The political declaration urged better access to diagnosis and treatment.