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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum urges States to undertake and promote the expansion of their national health systems in order to provide holistic health programmes for indigenous children that incorporate preventive medical practices and family and community participation. States are urged to address the issues of malnutrition of indigenous children victimized by poverty by adopting special measures to ensure and protect the cultivation of traditional food crops.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: Member States , UN System, donor agencies
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
Governments, the United Nations system and donor agencies are urged to support the formation of an international network of traditional healers who work with HIV/AIDS patients and organize expert meetings between traditional and medical practitioners on HIV/AIDS and traditional medicine.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: Pan American Health Organization, WHO
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 21 (2022)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation made at its eighteenth session for the Pan American Health Organization to prepare a study on the advancements in indigenous maternal health, including with the participation of indigenous midwives (E/2019/43, para. 45). The Permanent Forum also recommends that WHO prepare similar studies in other regions.
Area of Work: Health, Indigenous Women and Girls
