Ankara, Turkey – From April 16-20, the 15th Annual Meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Herbal Medicines Regulatory Cooperation Network (IRCH) was held in Turkey. The event brought together more than 20 regulatory agencies from around the world, including representatives from Latin America, Africa and Europe. Brazil and Cuba participated in person, while Chile […]
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The Directorate of Indigenous Health Affairs of the Ministry of Health of Panama is developing a process of strengthening competencies for Empirical Midwives in the indigenous areas of the country, with the objective of reducing maternal and infant mortality. In coordination with the traditional authorities of all the country’s indigenous territories and comarcas, the health […]
21 March 2024 — Experts from over 40 countries across all 6 WHO regions – researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, community organizations, and WHO staff – came together in New Delhi and Jamnagar, India to prioritize collaborations of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre (GTMC) towards the health and well-being of people and the planet. The meeting built on the […]
Held in India on August 17 and 18, the First Global Summit on Traditional Medicine of the World Health Organization (WHO) was attended by BIREME in technical cooperation with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Selected as a good practice in the region, the Virtual Health Library for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (VHL TCIM […]
Civil society organizations highlight the essential role of traditional, complementary and integrative health in addressing global health challenges, and opportunities for its integration into health systems WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and a group of WHO senior officials met with representatives of civil society on 3 July, to discuss their priorities on traditional, complementary […]
WHO has appointed 11 experts in traditional medicine, public health and policy to its External Advisory Group to provide strategic and technical advice to WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit. The Summit, to be held on 17 and 18 August in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India under the theme “Towards health and well-being for all”, will facilitate exchange of best practices […]
In the framework of the launch of the new WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM), the World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing the First WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine, which will take place on 17-18 August in Gandhinagar, India. The Summit, which will be held in parallel with the G20 meeting (chaired by the Government of […]
Following WHO guidelines in its strategy for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM), PAHO/WHO Brazil, in partnership with BIREME, held a webinar on the last December 13th to publicize two important initiatives that contribute to the strengthening and integration of TCIM into health systems and services in the Americas and the Caribbean, and to increase the […]
BIREME Bulletin n° 46 Posted in 2 August, 2020 The Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicines Network of the Americas (TCIM Americas Network) and the Brazilian Academic Consortium of Integrative Health (CABSIn in its Portuguese acronym), in coordination with BIREME, have been developing different products that seek to show the contribution of TCIM to the Covid-19 […]
WHO Africa original article https://www.afro.who.int/pt/node/13065 The VHL TCIM Americas shares this original news from WHO Africa for its relevance in the topic of Traditional Medicines research in the context of the pandemic. WHO, Africa CDC in joint push for COVID-19 traditional medicine research in Africa 22 July 2020 Autor: Addis Ababa/Brazzaville – In a joint […]