Traditional medicine remains on the regional health agenda

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 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.

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.

The date is the publication of WHO’s verification report, not the day the last person was treated.

Publication date: WHO described health ministers’ regional decisions covering traditional medicine as well as women’s health and other priorities.