Intercultural health is presented as a question of access

Publication date: WHO reported contributions by WHO, ITU and WIPO to a health and traditional medicine summit session.

Publication date: WHO described discussion of possible AI uses; it did not establish that an AI tool could validate treatments.

Publication date: PAHO described dialogues involving different systems of health knowledge in Peru.

Publication date: the PAHO account connects intercultural care with recognition of communities’ knowledge and experience.

Publication date: discussions on intercultural health examined communication between health services and local knowledge holders.

WHO validated a national milestone against human African trypanosomiasis.

Surveillance and case management supported the achievement.

WHO reported that Kenya had earlier been certified free of Guinea worm transmission.

The validation concerns a measured disease threshold, with continued case detection important.

A national commemoration in Moruleng, Moses Kotane Municipality, took place on 29 August, ahead of the annual 31 August observance.