PHA-Exchange> WHO LAUNCHES GLOBAL STRATEGY ON TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

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> WHO LAUNCHES THE FIRST GLOBAL STRATEGY ON TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE
>
> WHO, Geneva, May, 2002
>
> Press release: http://www.who.int/inf/en/pr-2002-38.html
> English Document:
http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/trm_strat_eng.pdf
> Spanish Document:
> http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/trm_strat_span.pdf
> French Document: http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/trm_strat_fr.pdf
>
> The World Health Organization (WHO) released on May 16,2002 a global plan
to
> address those issues. The strategy provides a framework for policy to
assist
> countries to regulate traditional or complementary/alternative medicine
> (TM/CAM) to make its use safer, more accessible to their populations and
> sustainable.
>
> Traditional Medicine: Growing Needs and Potential is the core of the WHO
> Strategy for Traditional Medicine for
> 2002-2005. It provides brief information on the growing needs and
challenges
> faced by traditional medicine worldwide. It also gives key messages and a
> checklist for the safety, efficacy and quality to policy-makers.
>
> It sets out WHO's role and how the WHO Strategy could meet the  challenges
> to support WHO Member States in the proper use of traditional and
> complementary/alternative medicine.