Community agents contribute to pregnancy care

Participants discussed incorporating well-studied practices into health systems.

The article describes questions of preserving knowledge and working with communities.

The 10 July date identifies WHO’s publication, not the date of the G20 event.

Traditional midwives and health institutions discussed community perinatal tools in Valledupar.

Cenaida Pana of La Guajira joined a meeting on culturally adapted care for mothers and newborns.

The meeting concluded on 26 July; PAHO reported on it on 1 August.

At a signing ceremony in Geneva, India committed US$85 million over ten years toward work at the WHO centre in Jamnagar.

The WHO centre named Indigenous knowledges and biodiversity among its connected areas of work.

The India-supported centre identified research and evidence as one of its core areas rather than assuming all inherited treatments work.

The donor agreement supported centre work on primary health care, access and appropriate study of traditional knowledge.