The WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre (GTMC) is organizing a global technical coordination meeting in New Delhi, India on 19 to 21 March 2024, followed by a WHO internal coordination meeting on 22 March 2024 at the TMC interim office in Jamnagar, India. Following up the action agenda set by the first WHO Global Traditional […]
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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 […]
The Ministry of Health of the Government of Mexico recently published on its website an article dedicated to its program with the milpa diet, which makes visible the work that has been done in recent years in that country to promote this agricultural system, which serves basis for a healthy eating model. “The milpa is […]
On July 3, 2023, in the framework of Dialogues with civil society, the Director General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and a group of senior WHO officials authorized themselves with representatives of different associations, meeting in the “TCIH Coalition”, to discuss priorities in traditional, complementary and integrative medicines, in the run up to […]
The World Health Assembly succeeded an unprecedented resolution calling on the Director-General to develop a global action plan for the health of indigenous peoples. “The resolution to protect the health of indigenous peoples, which is the first global resolution to be presented, was successfully approved and this will allow indigenous populations to receive due attention […]
The 2023 Health Assembly agreed to extend for two years the WHO Strategy on traditional medicine 2014-2023, which would expire next year, and asked the Director-General to develop a new one for the period 2025-2034, to be presented at the 78th meeting of this body, in 2025. This decision also establishes that stakeholders should be […]
WHO News original article: https://www.who.int/news/item/10-08-2023-who-convenes-first-high-level-global-summit-on-traditional-medicine-to-explore-evidence-base–opportunities-to-accelerate-health-for-all
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 […]
FUENTE: Ministerio de Salud de Brasil – Portal de Noticias: http://portalms.saude.gov.br/noticias/agencia-saude/45294-cresce-46-procura-por-praticas-integrativas-no-sus-2 El número de prácticas relacionadas a las medicinas complementarias que se han practicado en los últimos años, tales como por ejemplo el yoga y el tai-chi-chuan, han aumentado de 216 mil en 2017 a 315 mil en 2018, según destaca como nota principal el […]