WHA78 report connects traditional care and health systems

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: the World Health Assembly account connected traditional care with conservation and environmental sustainability.

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

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.

The research priority process focused on what still needs investigation, rather than declaring every approach effective.

Publication date: BIREME described presenting a pre-beta Global Traditional Medicine Library linked to a Brazil research consultation.