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Topic
South-South Dialogue on Sustainability: Traditional Medicine in the Global South
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Nov 16, 2024 07:00 AM

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In order to build a common agenda towards Health For All, to protect Mother Earth and ensure the present and future health and sustainability of our common home, the People's Health Movement (PHM), the Global University for Sustainability, CCRD-CS, Lingnan University from China organized a series of webinars to address the different dimensions of ancestral and popular knowledge for native peoples from around the world, their meaning, scope and implications for the right to health in the world today. Webinar 1 - Speakers: Professor Sit Tsui, Southwest University, China Cultural Resilience of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dr Vivian Camacho, People’s Health Movement, Latin America "Ancestral Wisdom for Health" From Abya Yala Webinar 2 - Speakers: Professor Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, India Traditional medicine, biodiversity and health, public health, and sustainable development. Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka Stellenbosch University, South Africa how the suppression law of South Africa prevented the indigenous healers (Traditional Healers) from practising their vocation and how despite this they were resilient and persisted. Emeritus Professor Gubela Mji Stellenbosch University, South Africa Case study of indigenous healers of kwaBomvane and their struggle to work closer with the local hospitals and clinics. Dr Rosemary Chimbala-Kalenga Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa On the Zambian situation of indigenous healers who never experienced a suppression law in their country