World Health Assembly extends traditional medicine plan

Publication date: the WHO message described 34 research institutes in 26 countries focused on quality, safety and efficacy.

Bangladesh achieved elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.

Large-scale treatment and monitoring reduced lymphatic filariasis in affected communities.

Health workers used repeated medicine campaigns in areas where the infection had circulated.

WHO validation concerns a disease no longer being a public health problem, not a claim of zero possible infection.

The extension allowed time to develop a new global policy approach to traditional medicine.

The Assembly’s decision made traditional medicine a matter for continuing international health policy.

The 2023 resolution extended a strategy; it did not establish clinical effectiveness of particular traditional treatments.

Publication date: a PAHO story described how ancestral birth knowledge and modern clinical tools can be brought into dialogue.

Publication date: PAHO described working with midwives to recognize pregnancy and newborn danger signs and refer patients.