Traditional medicine advisers address biodiversity

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: 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: 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.

Participants discussed inherited community practices and their relationship to health system priorities.

The civil society dialogue fed into WHO work on data, regulation and equitable access.