PAHO holds seminar on culturally safe childbirth

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

The global digital library was officially launched in New Delhi during the second WHO traditional medicine summit.

PAHO’s Brazil-based BIREME developed the library in coordination with the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre.

The resource was intended to improve access to information on traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.

The 19 December global release followed an October pre-launch by BIREME at a congress in Rio de Janeiro.

Publication date: PAHO discussed building health worker and traditional midwife skills in care for Indigenous pregnancies.

Publication date: PAHO promoted ways for institutional health workers and community midwives to coordinate respectfully.

Publication date: the seminar considered culturally safe care as part of reducing maternal and newborn health gaps.

A regional exchange brought examples from Latin America into discussion of traditional care and self-care.

The dialogue considered how local traditions can inform public health services.