Regional health ministers consider traditional practice

The efavirenz decision aimed to protect affordable access within Brazil’s treatment programme.

Compulsory licensing allowed use of a patented medicine under conditions set by law.

The measure concerned efavirenz specifically and did not remove patent protection for every medicine.

The fifty-seventh WHO Regional Committee for Africa concluded on this date, reporting a declaration on traditional medicine.

The meeting’s reported declaration brought traditional care into a regional health ministers’ agenda.

The committee’s closing report includes traditional medicine among its official regional outcomes.

The government and partners announced that girls and young women would begin receiving vaccine that day.

The programme sought to prevent HPV infections associated with cervical cancer.

Bhutan’s national vaccination effort combined health planning with outreach to young people.

The 6 May start was the beginning of a multi-dose rollout, not proof of cancer elimination.