WHO launches Traditional Medicine Global Library in India

The announcement described plans for wider access to documented research on traditional medicine.

Brazil met the criteria for eliminating vertical transmission of HIV as a public health problem.

Testing and timely treatment during pregnancy supported Brazil’s validation.

The national approach built on certification in states and large municipalities.

It recognizes sustained targets; it does not claim that future transmission is impossible.

PAHO’s Brazil-based BIREME developed the library in coordination with the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre.

The resource was intended to improve access to information on traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.

The 19 December global release followed an October pre-launch by BIREME at a congress in Rio de Janeiro.

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.