Traditional medicine report draws on 179 countries

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: WHO released its Global Report on Traditional and Complementary Medicine 2019 to address gaps in official country data.

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.

The WHO account notes research on traditional remedies proposed for malaria, diabetes and other conditions; it does not establish efficacy.