PHM-Exch> News on Healers exchange and conference for PHM

[Claudio Schuftan]

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> *International Traditional Healers Exchange &* *Conference on Promotion of
> *“*Traditional Medicine for Sustainable Healthcare
> 8th to 20th November 2009*, *Bangalore, India*
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> http://www.frlht.org/compasnov09.htm
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> Traditional medicine (TM) plays an important role in meeting demands of primary
> health care in many developing countries and thus occupies a key space in
> contemporary community health education. TM is increasingly becoming
> popular in many developed countries as well and functions under the title
> of complementary and alternative medicine. In a recent World Health
> Organisation (WHO) Congress in Beijing (November 2008), WHO called on
> member countries:
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> To integrate traditional medicine into their national health systems
> To share experience and information related to national policy, regulation,
> research, education and practice.
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> To establish systems for the qualification, accreditation or licensing of
> TM practitioners and upgrade their knowledge and skills based on national
> requirements.
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> In this backdrop, an International Healers Exchange and Conference on
> Traditional Medicine and Sustainable Healthcare is being held in Bangalore,
> India from 8th to 20th November 2009. This is being jointly organized by a
> group of organizations such as ETC-COMPAS (www.compasnet.org), FRLHT (
> www.frlht.org) and couple of other co-sponsors.
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> Around 50 healers from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Americas are
> expected to participate in the exchange program. Healers will visit various centers
> of excellence in traditional medicine in India from 8th to 17th of
> November.
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> The conference (19th and 20th Nov) will include around 100 participants
> including other interested stakeholders such as academicians, researchers,
> NGOs and policy makers apart from healers.
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> Objectives
> a.To have an intercultural exchange between folk healers practicing
> traditional medicine from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe and
> specifically to learn from the Indian experience of community knowledge in
> folk healing traditions in comparison with folk healing traditions from
> other continents.
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> b.To deliberate on epistemological aspects with respect to knowledge
> preservation, transmission, enhancement according to the highest contextual
> standards of the tradition. This will include intercultural challenges in
> relation to a modern globalized context.
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> c.To compare government recognition of folk healers from various countries,
> to recommend strategies for government recognition of folk healers (as a
> part of policy dialogue strategies in Compas and Community Knowledge Service
> Networks) and to formulate plans to create national level bodies for
> systematic approach to standardized training, professional development and
> accreditation of folk healers.
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> d.To assess how natural resource conservation strategies, i.e. medicinal
> plants that are linked to folk healing practices can be supported
> including bio-prospecting and IPR related issues of folk knowledge in
> healthcare.
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> e.To assess how folk healers and their practices can contribute to the public
> health programs in terms of management of common ailments, health
> education and management of major conditions for which medicines are not
> available or not accessible and to specifically deliberate on how
> traditional medicine could contribute to reaching Millennium Development
> Goals (MDGs).
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