Young leaders address biodiversity and health

Publication date: a WHO Bulletin special issue collected perspectives on traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.

Publication date: the issue drew attention to the relationship between longstanding knowledge traditions and contemporary health systems.

Publication date: PAHO reported a meeting of Indigenous youth from Latin America and the Caribbean to revise health priorities.

Publication date: participants discussed how ancestral knowledge and scientific medicine can interact in culturally suitable care.

Publication date: the PAHO account highlighted communication in Indigenous languages.

The three-day New Delhi summit opened on 17 December with a focus on evidence and health systems.

The opening announcement connected study of medicine with Indigenous rights and fair sharing of benefits.

WHO called for scientific rigour, product quality and regulation in discussions of traditional practices.

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.