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PAHO publishes feature on traditional midwives
📅 8 June 2023Publication date: a PAHO story described how ancestral birth knowledge and modern clinical tools can be brought into dialogue.
Traditional midwives receive training on warning signs
📅 8 June 2023Publication date: PAHO described working with midwives to recognize pregnancy and newborn danger signs and refer patients.
Ancestral practice and clinical care meet in the Americas
📅 8 June 2023Publication date: the PAHO feature offered examples of traditional midwives collaborating with health professionals.
Colombian traditional midwives appear in PAHO account
📅 8 June 2023Publication date: a midwife from Colombia’s Pacific coast was described learning biomedical tools alongside ancestral practices.
Rio hosts workshop on biodiversity and health knowledge
📅 25 July 2023A WHO and PAHO workshop scheduled for 25–28 July opened in Rio de Janeiro.
Indigenous and Afro-descendant voices join medicine workshop
📅 25 July 2023The Rio programme included Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants alongside health authorities and practitioners.
Medicinal plants feature in Brazilian health dialogue
📅 25 July 2023The workshop planned discussions of biodiversity and medicinal plants in community health.
Rio meeting links traditional care and conservation
📅 25 July 2023The opening day began four days of dialogue on how biodiversity sustains health knowledge and practices.
PAHO shares knowledge-dialogue method at Indigenous forum
📅 23 October 2023Publication date: PAHO reported presenting its method for respectful discussion of ancestral and clinical health knowledge.
Indigenous youth forum hears about ancestral midwifery
📅 23 October 2023Publication date: the PAHO account described a participatory manual connecting traditional midwives and health workers.
PAHO describes intercultural methods in Rome
📅 23 October 2023Publication date: PAHO used the Global Indigenous Youth Forum to explain health knowledge dialogues.
Traditional midwives contribute to a health manual
📅 23 October 2023Publication date: PAHO reported input from 280 midwives and community health agents to the manual.
Traditional knowledge enters an international policy forum
📅 10 July 2024Participants discussed incorporating well-studied practices into health systems.
WHO reports on a Brazil traditional medicine dialogue
📅 10 July 2024A dated report examines discussions during June G20 health meetings in Brazil.
A July report follows June meetings
📅 10 July 2024The 10 July date identifies WHO’s publication, not the date of the G20 event.
Indigenous knowledge protection becomes a health issue
📅 10 July 2024The article describes questions of preserving knowledge and working with communities.
A workshop predates its published report
📅 26 July 2024The meeting concluded on 26 July; PAHO reported on it on 1 August.
Community agents contribute to pregnancy care
📅 26 July 2024The workshop explored ways to link local experience and clinical support.
A midwife’s knowledge joins health planning
📅 26 July 2024Cenaida Pana of La Guajira joined a meeting on culturally adapted care for mothers and newborns.
Colombian maternal-care workshop concludes
📅 26 July 2024Traditional midwives and health institutions discussed community perinatal tools in Valledupar.
PAHO Americas strategy consultation concludes
📅 17 October 2024PAHO says its regional consultation on the WHO traditional medicine draft concluded on 17 October.
Sixteen countries comment on global traditional care policy
📅 17 October 2024Health authorities from 16 PAHO member states gave input into the draft strategy.
Indigenous and Afro-descendant medicine enters policy feedback
📅 17 October 2024Participants urged recognition of these communities’ traditions and autonomy in the Americas.
Traditional knowledge protection raised in consultation
📅 17 October 2024PAHO’s report emphasized protecting community knowledge and practices from inappropriate use.
Indigenous maternal-health meeting closes in Peru
📅 20 November 2024Women leaders, traditional midwives and health representatives met on 19–20 November.
Indigenous women discuss newborn care
📅 20 November 2024The regional dialogue asked how services could better meet communities’ health needs.
Traditional midwives join health-system discussions
📅 20 November 2024Participants called for practical tools to support maternal and neonatal care in Indigenous communities.
A Peru meeting centres culturally relevant care
📅 20 November 2024The meeting ended on 20 November; PAHO published its account on the following day.
Americas eye health meeting connects eight countries
📅 24 February 2025Publication date: PAHO named participants from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
Trachoma prevention considers Indigenous health practices
📅 24 February 2025Publication date: participants discussed intercultural prevention respectful of communities’ own health approaches.
Traditional healers join eye health conversations
📅 24 February 2025Publication date: PAHO said Indigenous leaders and traditional doctors with eye health experience participated.
Mexico hosts equity discussion on eye health
📅 24 February 2025Publication date: PAHO reported a meeting on ethnicity, race and gender equity in eye health.
Brazilian health conversation links different knowledge systems
📅 14 April 2025Publication date: the source describes exchange among public health, science and ancestral knowledge perspectives.
PAHO reports dialogue between science and ancestral knowledge
📅 14 April 2025Publication date: PAHO discussed the place of ancestral knowledge alongside science and digital tools in public health.
Ancestral health knowledge is presented in a public health forum
📅 14 April 2025Publication date: the PAHO account foregrounded traditional knowledge in discussions of present-day care.
Digital tools feature in a traditional knowledge discussion
📅 14 April 2025Publication date: PAHO connected access to health information with dialogue about inherited knowledge.
Brazil consultation on traditional medicine research concludes
📅 12 June 2025A PAHO-described regional research consultation met in São Paulo on 11–12 June; the second day is recorded here.
Americas research consultation identifies knowledge gaps
📅 12 June 2025The São Paulo meeting prioritized questions for study in traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.
São Paulo discussion seeks evidence for traditional care
📅 12 June 2025The research priority process focused on what still needs investigation, rather than declaring every approach effective.
Regional meeting includes traditional health systems in research
📅 12 June 2025The consultation considered how traditional care in the Americas could be studied through a coordinated research agenda.
PAHO describes early traditional medicine library prototype
📅 22 June 2025Publication date: BIREME described presenting a pre-beta Global Traditional Medicine Library linked to a Brazil research consultation.
Digital medicine library plans Indigenous access
📅 22 June 2025Publication date: PAHO discussed translations and culturally adapted interfaces for Indigenous users.
Medicine resource plans accessible formats
📅 22 June 2025Publication date: PAHO described accessible and audiovisual formats among the planned features.
São Paulo researchers preview a future global resource
📅 22 June 2025Publication date: director João Paulo Souza presented a library still under development, months before its official launch.
Intercultural health is presented as a question of access
📅 18 July 2025Publication date: the Peru reporting treats respectful dialogue as part of making care responsive to diverse communities.
Peru considers ways to connect community and formal care
📅 18 July 2025Publication date: discussions on intercultural health examined communication between health services and local knowledge holders.
Peruvian health dialogue includes Indigenous perspectives
📅 18 July 2025Publication date: the PAHO account connects intercultural care with recognition of communities’ knowledge and experience.
PAHO reports intercultural health dialogues in Peru
📅 18 July 2025Publication date: PAHO described dialogues involving different systems of health knowledge in Peru.
Traditional medicine information receives a digital index
📅 17 October 2025The preview highlighted plans to gather and organize health information across traditional and integrative medicine topics.
Traditional Medicine Global Library is previewed in Brazil
📅 17 October 2025BIREME and PAHO pre-launched the WHO library at a Rio de Janeiro congress on 17 October, before its December official launch.
Brazil-based BIREME invites feedback on medicine library
📅 17 October 2025At the Rio congress, director João Paulo Souza presented the resource and requested suggestions from practitioners and specialists.
Rio pre-launch precedes December global release
📅 17 October 2025This date marks a public preview of the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Library, distinct from its official December launch.
Indigenous youth discuss regional health plan in Guatemala
📅 1 December 2025Publication date: PAHO reported a meeting of Indigenous youth from Latin America and the Caribbean to revise health priorities.
Young leaders address biodiversity and health
📅 1 December 2025Publication date: the meeting related climate change and biodiversity loss to the right to culturally appropriate care.
Indigenous languages become part of health access debate
📅 1 December 2025Publication date: the PAHO account highlighted communication in Indigenous languages.
Youth meeting raises ancestral and scientific medicine
📅 1 December 2025Publication date: participants discussed how ancestral knowledge and scientific medicine can interact in culturally suitable care.
Prenatal HIV services protect children
📅 18 December 2025Testing and timely treatment during pregnancy supported Brazil’s validation.
Brazil uses local evidence for national validation
📅 18 December 2025The national approach built on certification in states and large municipalities.
Validation has a precise public health meaning
📅 18 December 2025It recognizes sustained targets; it does not claim that future transmission is impossible.
WHO validates Brazil’s mother-to-child HIV milestone
📅 18 December 2025Brazil met the criteria for eliminating vertical transmission of HIV as a public health problem.
WHO launches Traditional Medicine Global Library in India
📅 19 December 2025The global digital library was officially launched in New Delhi during the second WHO traditional medicine summit.
New Delhi launch follows Brazil library preview
📅 19 December 2025The 19 December global release followed an October pre-launch by BIREME at a congress in Rio de Janeiro.
Traditional medicine library gathers international material
📅 19 December 2025The resource was intended to improve access to information on traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.
Latin American health information centre builds a global resource
📅 19 December 2025PAHO’s Brazil-based BIREME developed the library in coordination with the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre.
PAHO holds seminar on culturally safe childbirth
📅 28 January 2026Publication date: PAHO described a virtual seminar with Central American health cooperation partners.
Central American midwives enter maternal health planning
📅 28 January 2026Publication date: PAHO discussed building health worker and traditional midwife skills in care for Indigenous pregnancies.
Intercultural care connects midwives and clinics
📅 28 January 2026Publication date: PAHO promoted ways for institutional health workers and community midwives to coordinate respectfully.
Regional childbirth method addresses unequal care
📅 28 January 2026Publication date: the seminar considered culturally safe care as part of reducing maternal and newborn health gaps.
WHO examines evidence around self-care traditions
📅 25 May 2026Publication date: the report framed integration as a matter for health system design and evidence rather than automatic approval.
Traditional medicine and public health share a regional forum
📅 25 May 2026Publication date: PAHO and WHO participants discussed responsible integration of traditional knowledge.
Americas health discussion includes community practices
📅 25 May 2026Publication date: the WHO account considered how health services could listen to community approaches and self-care.
WHO reports dialogue on tradition and self-care
📅 25 May 2026Publication date: WHO described a 13 May regional dialogue about traditional and integrative medicine in the Americas.
PAHO reports intercultural health mission in Ecuador
📅 1 July 2026Publication date: PAHO described a mission using dialogues with Indigenous communities on health priorities.
Ecuadorian dialogue addresses trust in trachoma work
📅 1 July 2026Publication date: PAHO linked respectful dialogue to understanding the community’s perspective on eye disease prevention.
Traditional and clinical approaches meet in Ecuador
📅 1 July 2026Publication date: the mission sought collaboration between Indigenous medicine and institutional health services.
Amazonian knowledge holders discuss eye health
📅 1 July 2026Publication date: in Taisha, Indigenous knowledge holders, leaders and health workers exchanged views about local eye health.
PAHO reports digital library for Indigenous health
📅 3 September 2026Publication date: PAHO described a virtual library developed with Brazil’s Secretariat for Indigenous Health.
Indigenous health information receives a dedicated portal
📅 3 September 2026Publication date: the online resource gathers documents and material about Indigenous Peoples’ health in one space.
Traditional midwives’ knowledge enters health memory work
📅 3 September 2026Publication date: PAHO discussed preserving midwives’ experiences and voices as part of Indigenous health knowledge.
Brazilian health knowledge project supports dialogue
📅 3 September 2026Publication date: the initiative was presented as a way to improve access to information and intercultural health policy.