Ancestral practice and clinical care meet in the Americas

The extension allowed time to develop a new global policy approach to traditional medicine.

The Assembly’s decision made traditional medicine a matter for continuing international health policy.

The 2023 resolution extended a strategy; it did not establish clinical effectiveness of particular traditional treatments.

Publication date: a PAHO story described how ancestral birth knowledge and modern clinical tools can be brought into dialogue.

Publication date: PAHO described working with midwives to recognize pregnancy and newborn danger signs and refer patients.

Publication date: a midwife from Colombia’s Pacific coast was described learning biomedical tools alongside ancestral practices.

Publication date: WHO said it had appointed eleven experts to a cross-regional advisory group.

Publication date: the group identified Indigenous knowledge, rights and resources as a priority theme.

Publication date: advisers named sustainability and biodiversity among summit topics.

Publication date: planned summit themes included equity in intellectual property and distribution of benefits.