WHO releases a global report on traditional medicine

The conference emphasized equity, access and cooperation across sectors.

Children began receiving the RTS,S vaccine through a routine immunization pilot.

The pilot tested how to provide a new prevention tool through existing health services.

RTS,S supplemented other preventive measures such as insecticide-treated nets.

The pilot monitored safety and impact before later recommendations for wider use.

Publication date: the WHO report summarized contributions from 179 member states, showing a global rather than single-country history.

Publication date: WHO described its report as the first to cover these three facets of traditional medicine together.

Publication date: compiling official national information made it easier to compare policies and research needs across countries.

WHO reports that the seventeenth observance in Ghana took place on 3 September 2019.

At the gathering, WHO discussed African institutions evaluating safety and quality of traditional treatments.