The African Medicines Innovations and Technology Development (AMITD) is a platform that aims to develop technologies and science-based solutions to stimulate economic growth in the pharmaceutical industry. AMITD's focus is on using indigenous knowledge (IK) and South African biodiversity to create high-quality African Traditional Medicine (ATM) products.
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The video discusses the role of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) in facilitating collaboration among SMEs, industries, universities, and science councils to drive innovation in specific sectors and enhance global competitiveness. Mandated by the Technology Innovation Act (Act 26 of 2008), TIA was established to promote the development and public interest exploitation of discoveries, inventio...
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Practice of traditional postnatal care. It involves harvesting selected herbs, drying herbs and spices. Postnatal massages (Param and Pilis)
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E-course for laboratory capacity building, presicion test. The video is about sampling methods for herbal material. Sampling of material in bulk, checking the quality of the sample, warranty representatives, quartering, quartering for large material like bark, grinding, containers, storage.
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E-course for laboratory capacity building, presicion test. This video focuses on Sampling methods and preparations for general test. The video describes quarteing the method steps.
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Video part of the e-course for laboratory capacity building for quality control of traditional medicines. This video deals with the determination of volatile oils. It defines volatile oils, the equipment to be used, sample preparation according to the type of material (bark, roots, leaves, flowers...). It describes the methods in 7 steps and the apparatus.
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Video part of the e-course for laboratory capacity building for quality control of traditional medicines. This vieos is about the determination of volatile oils or esential oils in herbal material, specially in aromatic plants. It desribes the equipment, and the procedure by steem destilation in 6 steps.
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Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of Pan American Healt Organization talk about tradicional medicine in America
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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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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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