WHO appoints advisers for traditional medicine summit

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: the PAHO feature offered examples of traditional midwives collaborating with health professionals.

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

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.

WHO reports that its director general met a civil society coalition on 3 July before the global medicine summit.

WHO says representatives of more than 300 civil society organizations joined the virtual meeting.