📅 31 August 2005
On African Traditional Medicine Day, regional director Luis Sambo urged a stronger role for traditional health practitioners in preventing HIV.
📅 31 August 2005
The WHO regional message treated trusted community practitioners as possible partners in prevention communication.
📅 31 August 2005
The 2005 call recognized that many people visit traditional practitioners as well as clinics.
📅 31 August 2005
WHO’s call concerned prevention and the role of practitioners, not evidence that a traditional remedy cures HIV.
📅 21 March 2006
More than 60 experts began a four-day meeting on protection of African traditional medical knowledge.
📅 21 March 2006
Traditional practitioners joined lawyers and researchers at the Brazzaville workshop on ownership and recognition of medical knowledge.
📅 21 March 2006
The meeting examined a draft framework on intellectual property rights and African traditional medical knowledge.
📅 21 March 2006
Participants discussed who should receive benefits from uses of African traditional knowledge and medicinal biodiversity.
📅 24 March 2006
WHO reports that the four-day workshop ended Friday with guidelines for protection and promotion of African Indigenous medical knowledge.
📅 24 March 2006
Participants recommended model legislation that countries could adapt to protect locally held medical knowledge.
📅 24 March 2006
The consensus document considered legal recognition and the protection of African medicinal biodiversity.
📅 24 March 2006
WHO regional director Luis Sambo stressed community interests when discussing access, ownership and benefit-sharing.
📅 31 August 2006
The WHO regional director issued a message for the fourth annual observance on 31 August 2006.
📅 31 August 2006
The observance framed traditional practitioners as part of discussion on access to care across the continent.
📅 31 August 2006
The annual message brought public attention to medical practices used by African communities.
📅 31 August 2006
The 2006 observance marked a fourth year of continent-wide debate about traditional medicine and health systems.
📅 31 August 2011
WHO published a regional director’s message for the annual observance held on 31 August.
📅 31 August 2011
The 2011 observance connected protection of medicinal plants to African traditional medicine.
📅 31 August 2011
The WHO message relates traditional health practices to conservation and use of natural resources.
📅 31 August 2011
The 2011 observance looked back at an African traditional medicine action plan and continued policy questions.
📅 3 November 2014
WHO reports President Boni Yayi addressing the regional committee on this date during a debate on stronger health systems.
📅 3 November 2014
At the Cotonou meeting, Boni Yayi asked African countries to consider conventional and traditional medicine in health cooperation.
📅 3 November 2014
The 2014 regional health meeting considered inherited care within a broader call to strengthen systems facing epidemics.
📅 3 November 2014
The Benin president connected traditional and conventional care with partnerships among countries of the Global South.
