Global medicine plan highlights medicinal biodiversity

Publication date: WHO described expert and official support for its strategy on traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.

Publication date: WHO summarized discussions among officials and experts about an updated global approach.

Publication date: the WHO discussion considered how national systems can address evidence, appropriate use and safety.

The dated WHO report concerns a global policy strategy, not a clinical finding that any particular remedy works.

Publication date: WHO explained how the newly adopted strategy addresses Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and rights.

Publication date: WHO set out the strategy’s concern with effective and safe practice, regulation and research.

Publication date: WHO summarized the significance of the Assembly’s earlier decision on medicine integration.

A PAHO-described regional research consultation met in São Paulo on 11–12 June; the second day is recorded here.

The São Paulo meeting prioritized questions for study in traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.

The consultation considered how traditional care in the Americas could be studied through a coordinated research agenda.