Tenth African Traditional Medicine Day is observed

The 2011 launch joined government and a national traditional healers’ association in one event.

The National Library of Medicine opened an exhibition on Indigenous perspectives on health and illness.

The exhibition included American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian accounts of health.

The exhibition highlighted traditions and contemporary experiences through Native participants.

The exhibition considered relationships among body, community, spirit and environment.

The tenth year’s event theme invited assessment of what the observance had achieved.

The 2012 event notice linked the annual observance to changes affecting practitioners, practices and products.

The tenth observance provided a dated point in ongoing African discussion of traditional care.

A dated epidemiological report describes verification that onchocerciasis transmission had ended in Colombia.

Years of treatment with ivermectin and surveillance preceded the first national verification.