Community health knowledge meets health policy

Publication date: PAHO described a virtual seminar with Central American health cooperation partners.

Publication date: PAHO discussed building health worker and traditional midwife skills in care for Indigenous pregnancies.

Publication date: PAHO promoted ways for institutional health workers and community midwives to coordinate respectfully.

Publication date: the seminar considered culturally safe care as part of reducing maternal and newborn health gaps.

A regional exchange brought examples from Latin America into discussion of traditional care and self-care.

Speakers discussed experience in Bolivia, Mexico and Peru.

The event took place on 13 May; WHO published its account on 25 May.

Publication date: a WHO account of WHA79 highlighted Indigenous knowledge in discussions of traditional medicine and health.

Publication date: a speaker explained how the survival of medicinal plants depends on healthy and diverse ecosystems.

Publication date: WHO reported a discussion of Indigenous Peoples’ role in protecting biodiversity and health knowledge.