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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Traditional healers in Pretoria celebrate National Traditional Medicine Day, emphasizing the importance of collaborating with Western doctors in hospitals. This commemoration, marking its 20th anniversary, recalls the 2000 WHO resolution to promote the use of indigenous medicinal plants. Temba Casa criticizes Western doctors for appropriating traditional medicine, suggesting that both can compleme...
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Lagos is integrating traditional medicine by licensing and training practitioners like bone setters and herbalists, aiming to balance with conventional medicine. Patients appreciate the accessibility and affordability of traditional treatments, though there are criticisms regarding the lack of scientific research. Lagos also plans a botanical center to utilize medicinal plants and establish a hosp...
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