New Delhi summit proposes common safety standards

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.

The opening announcement connected study of medicine with Indigenous rights and fair sharing of benefits.

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.

It recognizes sustained targets; it does not claim that future transmission is impossible.