Community health knowledge enters global policy talks

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.

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.

The workshop planned discussions of biodiversity and medicinal plants in community health.

The opening day began four days of dialogue on how biodiversity sustains health knowledge and practices.