The Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health (GIFTS) is a program launched in 1993 at the headquarters of the
Pan American Health Organization
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GIFTS states its purpose of "bringing into policy focus the importance of traditional (indigenous) medicine in the daily lives and health care of the majority of the population of most emerging economies."
External links
Researchers of Indigenous Medicine
Treating HIV in South Africa -- A Tale of Two SystemsInstitutional heterogeneity in globalization: Co-development of western-allopathic medicine and traditional-alternative medicine
On the First International Meeting of the Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods (RITAM)Traditional Medicine Growing Needs and Potential - WHO Policy Perspectives on Medicines, No. 002, May 2002Traditional Chinese Medicine: a global trend, viable alternative to Western medicineMedicinal plants for forest conservation and health careCollaboration with Traditional Healers in theProvision of Skin Care for All in AfricaTurning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
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