The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO of the year 2003, recognizes the importance of the knowledge possessed by communities, especially indigenous ones, as part of the cultural diversity of nations and seeks to protect them – safeguard them while preserving their function within society (SeeEl texto de la Convención […]
Traditional Medicines of the Americas
The Americas Region there are around 826 indigenous peoples, each one with a particular worldview and cosmogony that configure unique universes and therefore ways of being in the world and in a particular territory. The indigenous peoples of the region speak more than 550 different languages, almost a quarter of which are cross-border languages, used […]
In the near future, you will find documents, information, and links to official documentation centers on Traditional Medicines in the countries of the Americas region.
Argentina Atacama Lule Vilela Tapiete Ava Guaraní Mapuche Tehuelche Aymara Mbyá Guarani Tilián Chané Mocoví Toba Charrúa Ocloya Tonocoté Chorote Omaguaca Wichi Chulupí Pampa Comenchingon Pilagá Diaguita-Calchaquí Quechua Guaraní Querandí Huarpe Rankulche Kolla Sanavirón Lule Selk’Nam (Ona) Bolivia (Plurinational State) Araona Guarayo Quechua Aymara Itonama Sirionó Ayoreo Joaquiniano Takana Baure Kallawaya Tapiete Canichana Leco Trinitario […]
In this section, you will find links to various academic institutions, research groups, collaboration networks, associations, and international organizations that include intercultural health and traditional medicines in their agenda and objectives. 1 Groups, Research Centers, and Observatories in Indigenous, Afro-American, and Ethnic Diversity Traditional Medicines 2 Research Networks in Traditional Medicine of Indigenous Peoples, Afrodescendants, […]
In this section you will be able to access different strategies developed by WHO/PAHO and other international organizations such as ORAS-CONHU, with the intention to protect indigenous, Afro-descendent, Roma and other ethnic peoples, support health and well-being in these communities, promote traditional medicines and their knowledgebase, and strengthen the development and implementation of an intercultural […]
Many medical products and advances such as certain medicines and vaccines, among others, base their origin in natural resources, which themselves are intimately connected with traditional ways of knowing and traditional medical systems. Traditional medicine knowledge has social, cultural and scientific value and is critical to Indigenous peoples and to local communities. Historically, traditional medicine […]
Health as a human right covers all people regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, class or race, this implies the opportunity to receive medical care in all areas of individual and collective life. On the other hand, health, understood as a process of health – disease – assistance – care, is totally interdependent with social, cultural, […]
In the late 1970s, PAHO proposed understanding traditional medicine as: “the set of all theoretical and practical knowledge, explainable or not, used for the diagnosis, prevention, and alleviation of physical, mental, or social disorders, based exclusively on experience and observation, and transmitted verbally or in writing from one generation to another. It can also be […]
In the preamble to the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1946, health was defined as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of infirmities and diseases” and it was affirmed that “the enjoyment of the maximum degree of health that can be achieved is one […]