African medicine day asks about its impact

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.

WHO’s event notice dates the tenth regional observance to 31 August 2012.

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.

Onchocerciasis, carried by black flies, can cause skin disease and loss of vision.