4th Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge

Africa First, LLC of Minnesota, USA, in association with and support of the Ghana Ministry of Health, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Tourism, Burkina Faso Ministry of Health, Senegal Ministry of Health and Prevention, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Ghana AIDS Commission and other stakeholders will host the 4th Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicines & Indigenous Knowledge from 2-5 August 2010 in Accra.

The objectives of the 4th Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge are as follows:

(a) To review the level of progress national governments have made in empowering traditional medicine practitioners to provide safe, effective and quality products and practices as an integral part of their primary healthcare systems after nearly two decades when the World Health Organization gave its recognition to the potentials of traditional medicine and encouraged member nations to promote and support its usage, and after several international meetings and commitments made by member nations to develop traditional medicine as part of their healthcare systems.

(b) To recommend to national governments universally accepted strategies to make institutionalisation of traditional medicine as part of their primary healthcare delivery systems a reality.

(c) To search and identify for further research and development into drugs and supplements, both documented and undocumented traditional/alternative medicines and healing practices, which are efficacious, safe and affordable, for nutrition, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, sickle cell, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke and mental disorders, etc.

(d) To develop and recommend to national governments drafts of international, regional and municipal intellectual property, copyright and patent laws on traditional medicine and indigenous knowledge forms suitable to the specific needs of individual nations to ensure protection for the rights of underserved people to biodiversity, discoveries in medicinal therapies and scientific innovations towards economic and social advancement.

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