Health and Toxics
67. We will continue to utilize, strengthen and protect our traditional health systems within our communities. Our indigenous health systems, practices and traditional healers must be given due and equitable recognition. Our collective intellectual rights to our traditional medicines must be protected.
68. We demand financing and equitable partnerships for our own health programs, projects and initiatives.
69. We urge international institutions and governments to participate in the construction of a plural model of public health which validates our traditional knowledge, innovations and practices and healers.
70. We will cooperate to urgently establish all necessary measures to control new and resurgent diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Our traditional and customary institutions and laws should be recognized and strengthened to fight against these diseases.
71. We demand effective participation in the planning, implementation and monitoring of national and international health policies, programmes and services. We also demand that the national health systems provide treatments and vital medicines that are accessible, free of cost or at an affordable price.
67. We will continue to utilize, strengthen and protect our traditional health systems within our communities. Our indigenous health systems, practices and traditional healers must be given due and equitable recognition. Our collective intellectual rights to our traditional medicines must be protected.
68. We demand financing and equitable partnerships for our own health programs, projects and initiatives.
69. We urge international institutions and governments to participate in the construction of a plural model of public health which validates our traditional knowledge, innovations and practices and healers.
70. We will cooperate to urgently establish all necessary measures to control new and resurgent diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Our traditional and customary institutions and laws should be recognized and strengthened to fight against these diseases.
71. We demand effective participation in the planning, implementation and monitoring of national and international health policies, programmes and services. We also demand that the national health systems provide treatments and vital medicines that are accessible, free of cost or at an affordable price.