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June 17, 2003 – The World Health Organization (WHO) this week launched a project that aims to increase the quality and accessibility of traditional medicine around the world.
About 80 participants from 35 countries gathered in Japan to draw the first lines of an atlas of traditional medicine. The document, which could be completed as early as next year, will illustrate the accessibility of this type of medicine which, in several places on the planet’s surface, is the only type available.
The head of the project, Yuji Kawaguchi of Japan, says he hopes the initiative will serve to improve health systems, clinical research, training and the quality of traditional medicine around the world. The atlas could in particular encourage insurance companies to cover the costs of traditional medicine, where it is the only one available.
Recently, a similar project, called Tekpad, was launched in order to upload and protect the knowledge of shamans (see the PasseportSanté.net article on this subject, dated March 19, 2003).
Jean-Benoit Legault – PasseportSanté.net
According to AFP; June 17, 2003.
