WHO summit discusses rights to medicinal biodiversity

Publication date: PAHO reported a meeting of Indigenous youth from Latin America and the Caribbean to revise health priorities.

Publication date: participants discussed how ancestral knowledge and scientific medicine can interact in culturally suitable care.

Publication date: the PAHO account highlighted communication in Indigenous languages.

Publication date: the meeting related climate change and biodiversity loss to the right to culturally appropriate care.

The three-day New Delhi summit opened on 17 December with a focus on evidence and health systems.

WHO called for scientific rigour, product quality and regulation in discussions of traditional practices.

The announcement described plans for wider access to documented research on traditional medicine.

Brazil met the criteria for eliminating vertical transmission of HIV as a public health problem.

Testing and timely treatment during pregnancy supported Brazil’s validation.

The national approach built on certification in states and large municipalities.