Mozambique traditional medicine institute joins public discussion

Publication date: WHO reported that its regional committee endorsed a report on traditional medicine.

Publication date: the regional committee report treated traditional care alongside public health systems and other concerns.

Publication date: decisions recorded by WHO concerned governance and planning, not clinical endorsement of any remedy.

Publication date: a WHO report from Lichinga described discussions about traditional care and its relation to institutional medicine.

Publication date: the Lichinga account described the inauguration of land for sustainable cultivation of plants used by traditional practitioners.

Publication date: WHO described training practitioners to recognize serious illness and refer patients to formal care.

The region’s member states received certification of interrupted indigenous wild poliovirus transmission.

India’s last wild case was in 2011, and regional certification followed sustained surveillance.

Vaccination campaigns and case monitoring supported the certification decision.

This milestone did not mean that all forms of polio risk worldwide had disappeared.