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Brazzaville medical knowledge workshop adopts guidelines
📅 24 March 2006WHO reports that the four-day workshop ended Friday with guidelines for protection and promotion of African Indigenous medical knowledge.
African workshop calls for adaptable national legislation
📅 24 March 2006Participants recommended model legislation that countries could adapt to protect locally held medical knowledge.
Traditional medicine protection includes biodiversity
📅 24 March 2006The consensus document considered legal recognition and the protection of African medicinal biodiversity.
African workshop discusses fair returns to knowledge holders
📅 24 March 2006WHO regional director Luis Sambo stressed community interests when discussing access, ownership and benefit-sharing.
African panel endorses herbal trial protocol
📅 19 September 2020A regional expert panel endorsed a phase III clinical trial protocol for candidate herbal products against COVID-19, without approving a product.
Safety monitoring enters proposed herbal trials
📅 19 September 2020The panel also endorsed terms of reference for a data and safety monitoring board to review participant safety during trials.
African herbal research adopts a common trial design
📅 19 September 2020The agreed protocol was intended to help African scientists generate comparable evidence under international clinical research standards.
Expert panel distinguishes proposed cures from proven ones
📅 19 September 2020Its endorsement applied to methods for testing potential therapies; safety and effectiveness remained to be established by research.
UNESCO reports Eastern African medicine discussion
📅 5 December 2020Publication date: UNESCO described a webinar on traditional and complementary medicine during COVID-19.
African medicine webinar weighs knowledge and evidence
📅 5 December 2020Publication date: regional organizations discussed sharing and studying African traditional medicine; no COVID-19 remedy was proven.
UNESCO relates health traditions to heritage
📅 5 December 2020Publication date: UNESCO placed inherited medicine within discussion of cultural heritage and biodiversity.
African medical knowledge rights enter pandemic debate
📅 5 December 2020Publication date: participants addressed ethics, community knowledge and support for research during the pandemic.