Civil society and WHO discuss traditional care

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.

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.

A WHO and PAHO workshop scheduled for 25–28 July opened in Rio de Janeiro.

The Rio programme included Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants alongside health authorities and practitioners.