WHO reports public health leaders’ medicine workshop

Speakers addressed safe, respectful engagement with African traditional medicine and research.

Publication date: PAHO described a virtual library developed with Brazil’s Secretariat for Indigenous Health.

Publication date: the online resource gathers documents and material about Indigenous Peoples’ health in one space.

Publication date: PAHO discussed preserving midwives’ experiences and voices as part of Indigenous health knowledge.

Publication date: the initiative was presented as a way to improve access to information and intercultural health policy.

Publication date: speakers highlighted a gap between widespread traditional medicine use and investment in robust evidence.

Publication date: the priority-setting discussion named pain and mental health among topics needing further study.

Publication date: WHO reported a discussion of quality and accountability for practitioners and medicinal products.

Publication date: WHO described commitments to traditional medicine in a New Delhi leaders’ declaration.

Publication date: the WHO account links BRICS cooperation to research and exchange of traditional medicine knowledge.