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Farming to protect your family and the forest in Peru

Data: 04/04/2023

A group of Indigenous women in Peru are fighting climate change right in their own backyard. Not only are they restoring the forest where they live, but making a living from it too so they they and their families can continue to live her.
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Mudança Climática, Saúde de Populações Indígenas, Ecossistema Amazônico, AMRO - Americas, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Bolivia: conocimientos ancestrales sobre el clima

Data: 08/01/2019

Since ancient times, Bolivian farmers have interpreted signals in the environment to understand and predict weather patterns. Today, this knowledge has become an important tool in the design of climate change adaptation projects.
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Cultura Indígena, Mudança Climática, AMRO - Americas, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Ecuador: The Waorani Women's Association

Data: 15/10/2014

The Waroani Women's Association, an indigenous group of women from the Ecuadorian Amazon, are now entrepreneurs thanks to the Corridor Central project, financed by IFAD and implemented by the Ecuadorian Instituto Nacional de Economía Popular y Solidaria, They have improved and strengthened their organizational capacities and entrepreneurial capabilities, including developing “Waorani, Hecho a ...
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Ecossistema Amazônico, Direitos Humanos, Povos Indígenas, Identificação Social, AMRO - Americas, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility IPAF

Data: 17/08/2023

The Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF) is an innovative funding instrument that indigenous communities can use to find solutions to the challenges they face. The objective of the Facility is to strengthen indigenous peoples’ communities and their organizations. It finances small projects that foster self-driven development. IPAF supports projects designed and implemented by Indigenous...
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Cultura Indígena, Biodiversidade, Meio Ambiente e Saúde Pública, Medicina Tradicional Indígena das Américas, AMRO - Americas, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Data: 16/08/2023

This video highlights the participation of the Region of the Americas in the First WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine, held to recognize the value and contribution of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine in global health systems. Representatives from various countries in the Americas emphasize the diversity of ancestral and community-based healing practices, the role of Indi...
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Medicina Tradicional Indígena das Américas, Integralidade em Saúde, Políticas, Planejamento e Administração em Saúde, AMRO - Americas, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Fast tracking traditional medicine in Africa

Data: 17/08/2023

Intervention by Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Director General of the National Institute of Biomedical Research. How can African countries leverage their vast knowledge of traditional medicines to accelerate research and development of herbal therapeutics for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases?
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Medicina Tradicional/tendências, Medicina Herbária, COVID-19, AFRO - African Region, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Ghanaians Look to Herbal Remedies for COVID-19

Data: 02/06/2020

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many Ghanaians have visited a plant research center near Accra to share herbal products they believe may help treat the virus or alleviate its symptoms. Approximately 70% of Ghanaians rely on herbal remedies, and the government has begun integrating herbal practitioners into hospitals. The Center for Plant Medicine Research, inspired by a Ghanaian doctor’s visit to C...
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COVID-19/terapia, Medicina Herbária, Extratos Vegetais, EURO - Europe, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

African Perspective | Uganda launches COVID-19 herbal treatment clinical trials

Data: 27/01/2021

Uganda has launched clinical trials of a locally produced herbal treatment for COVID-19. The therapeutic drug was developed by a think-tank of local scientists - under the Presidential Initiative on Epidemics. The product; UBV-01N is the first Ugandan natural chemotherapeutic medicine to go through an international level of the clinical trial process. Michael Baleke reports from Kampala.
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COVID-19/terapia, , Medicina Herbária, AFRO - African Region, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

African Traditional Medicine Day 2022

Data: 01/09/2022

The video titled "IPSF AfRO" discusses the significance of African Traditional Medicine and its ongoing relevance in contemporary healthcare practices. It showcases various traditional healing methods, such as using tree barks to dress wounds, emphasizing their historical roots and effectiveness. The presentation also highlights the importance of integrating traditional medicine with modern medica...
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Medicinas Tradicionais Africanas, Integração de Sistemas, Aloe, Moringa, Adansonia, Hibiscus, AFRO - African Region, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit

Celebrating African Traditional Medicine Day 2020

Data: 31/08/2020

The video highlights African traditional medicine as a holistic system that includes therapy and rituals to heal patients, emphasizing its importance during the coronavirus pandemic. It underscores the need to maintain social distancing measures and the use of sanitizers. African traditional medicine is portrayed as an integral way of life.
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Medicinas Tradicionais Africanas, , COVID-19, AFRO - African Region, Exhibition Hall - First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit