Component 2

Promotion and integration of traditional medicine, and improvement of health care in the Trio and Wayana communities of Suriname.

The Project seeks to support the health needs of the Trio and Wayana communities, through a two-fold approach. First, the improvement of general sanitary/health care conditions through the implementation basic health education programs (see for eg Workshops in Apetina and Tepu), and second, through the promotion and integration of traditional medicine, by providing for construction and equipment of a traditional medicine facility, training of traditional health care practitioners and workshops for staff of the Medical Mission clinics and for the traditional medicine clinics at the indigenous villages of Kwamalasamutu, Tepu and Apetina, and support for community-based ownership and application of traditional medicine knowledge to the outside world (see traditional medicine research). Both sustainable development objectives and biocultural conservation objectives are fulfilled through the support of traditional medicine know-how and practice. This component builds on a previous ACT initiative, “The Shaman’s Apprentice” program, which sought to inventorize and support the transmission of traditional medicine knowledge across generations, with the dual aim of preserving an important cultural tradition while at the same time ensuring that the ownership and patent rights of this knowledge remain with the indigenous groups while its benefits are shared with the rest of the world .

 

  

Documents and Pictures

 

Equipment of traditional Medic Clinic, Apetina   (May 6-8, 2005)

 Public Health Workshop on Gastroenteritis in Tepu (August 28, 2004) - Task 2.3

 Public Health and Water-borne Infectious Diseases Workshop (December 10, 2004) – Task 2.4 - Task 2.4

 Press Release DWT Apetina Clinic (February 2005) – Task 2.1

 Opening of the Epipakolon clinic in Apetina (February 18, 2005)  – Task 2.1

 Hygiene workshop in Tepu (April 22-23 2005)   – Task 2.3

 Workshops for Clinic Personnel – Kajana and Apetina Clinic (February 22-24, 2005)  – Task 2.3

 Hygiene workshop in Apetina (April 28-30, 2005)   – Task 2.4

 Hygiene workshop in Tepu (November 15, 2005)  

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 Traditional medicine health research. (February 10, 2006)

 

 

 

 

 

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