Traditional Medicine

Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine ("traditional medicine") can be used as an input to "modern" pharmaceutical research, but also as source of effective treatments in its own right. An issue for the Commission is to consider ways in which the potential of traditional medicine for providing affordable treatments could be better realised.

Documents

• Traditional medicine | EB111.R12 Resolution of the Executive Board of the WHO | 24 January 2003
  
• WHO Traditional medicine strategy 2002-2005 | WHO/EDM/TRM/2002.1 | World Health Organization (2002)
  
• HIV: Effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine | R. Power et al. | Primary care 2002, 29:361-78
  
• Traditional medicine - growing needs and potential | WHO Policy Perspectives on Medicines. No 2 | World Health Organization, May 2002
  
• Legal Status of Traditional Medicine and Complementary/ Alternative Medicine: A worldwide review | World Health Organization (2001)
  
• General guidelines for methodologies on research and evaluation of traditional medicine | World Health Organization (2000)
  
• Collaboration with Traditional Healers in AIDS Prevention and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review | UNAIDS, Geneva (2000)
  
• Regulatory Situation of Herbal Medicines: a worldwide overview | World Health Organization (1998)
  

Articles

• China to boost traditional medicine hospitals | By Jia Hepeng | 2 July 2004, SciDev.Net web site
  
• Kenya to develop traditional medicine action plan | By Kimani Chege | 29 June 2004, SciDev.Net web site
  
• China approves traditional medicine for AIDS patients | By Jia Hepeng | 20 April 2004, SciDev.Net web site
  
• Lessons on integration from the developing world's experience | By G. Bodeker | British Medical Journal 322:164-7 | 20 January 2001
  
• A regional task force on traditional medicine and AIDS| By G. Bodeker et al. | Lancet 355(9211):1294 | 8 April 2000
  

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