World Health Organization Launches First Global Strategy On TraditionalAnd Alternative Medicine

June 10, 2002 World Health Organization Launches First Global Strategy On Traditional And Alternative Medicine On May 16, 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a global plan to address several issues on the usage of traditional and alternative medicine including the issue of safety, questions of policy, regulation, evidence, biodiversity and preservation and protection of traditional knowledge. The strategy provides a framework for policy to assist countries to regulate traditional or complementary/alternative medicine (TM/CAM) to make its use safer, more accessible to their populations and sustainable. The WHO TM/CAM strategy incorporates four objectives: Integrating TM/CAM . . .