African committee records a medicine declaration

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.

WHO’s report of the Brazzaville meeting documents a policy discussion involving African traditional medicine.

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.

The last reported case was a child in West Bengal whose illness began on 13 January.