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African Union Scientific Technical and Research Commission

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African Union Scientific Technical and Research Commission

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Organization Timeline

Brazzaville workshop on African medical knowledge opens

📅 21 March 2006

More than 60 experts began a four-day meeting on protection of African traditional medical knowledge.

African health practitioners enter rights discussion

📅 21 March 2006

Traditional practitioners joined lawyers and researchers at the Brazzaville workshop on ownership and recognition of medical knowledge.

WHO and African Union consider knowledge protection

📅 21 March 2006

The meeting examined a draft framework on intellectual property rights and African traditional medical knowledge.

Brazzaville speakers raise benefit-sharing

📅 21 March 2006

Participants discussed who should receive benefits from uses of African traditional knowledge and medicinal biodiversity.