Relevant Links

In this section, you will find links to different academic institutions, research groups, collaboration networks, associations and international organizations, which include in their agenda and objectives intercultural health and traditional medicines.

7.1 Groups, Research Centers, and Observatories in Traditional Indigenous, African American, and Ethnic Diversity Medicines

• Master in Intercultural Health (University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast -URACCAN): http://www.uraccan.edu.ni/tesis-campusvirtual.
• Observatory of Multiethnic Regional Autonomy (Nicaragua): http://observatorio.uraccan.edu.ni/contenido/medicina-tradicional.
• University Program of Studies on Cultural Diversity and Interculturality: http://www.nacionmulticultural.unam.mx/.
• A vision of intercultural health for the indigenous peoples of the Americas http://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/166086.

7.2 Research networks in Traditional Medicine of the Indigenous, Afro-descendant and Ethnic Diversity peoples

• National Native Health Research Training (NNHRT) http://nnhrti.org/about.html.
• National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network http://www.nirakn.edu.au/.
• National Native Health Research Training Conference https://www.nativeresearchnetwork.org/.
• Center for World Indigenous Studies https://cwis.org/center-for-traditional-medicine/people/.

7.3 Repositories related to Traditional Medicine

• VHL of Indigenous Peoples: http://pueblosindigenas.bvsp.org.bo.
• Digital Library Traditional Mexican Medicine (UNAM): http://www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx/index.php.
• Tebtebba Virtual Repository (Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy Research and Education) http://www.tebtebba.org/index.php/resource-center.

7.4 Alliances, Networks, Associations of Indigenous Peoples

• Alliance of Indigenous Women of Central America and Mexico (AMICAM): http://alianzademujeresindigenas.org.mx.
• Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations (CAOI): http://www.coordinadoracaoi.org.
• Indigenous Council of Central America (CICA): http://consejocica.org/.
• Mesoamerican Indigenous Council (CIMA).
• Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA): www.coica.org.ec.
• Continental Liaison for Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA): www.ecmia.org.
• Network of Indigenous Women on Biodiversity in Latin America (RMIB-LA): http://reddemujeresindgenas.blogspot.com/.

7.5. International organizations

• Permanent Forum of the United Nations for Indigenous Issues https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenous-peoples-es/sesiones-del-foro-permanente.html.
• Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: http://www.filac.org.
• Andean Health Organization (ORAS-CONHU): http://www.orasconhu.org/home.
• Publications of the Gender and Cultural Diversity Unit (PAHO): http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=3340&Itemid=3582&lang=en.
• Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UN http://www.ohchr.org/SP/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/EMRIPIndex.aspx.
• Indigenous Program Spanish Cooperation Agency http://www.aecid.es/ES/d%C3%B3nde-cooperamos/alc/programas-horizontales/programa-indigena.
• Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACTO): http://www.otca-oficial.info/.
• South American Institute of Government in Health (ISAGS / UNASUR): http://www.isags-unasur.org.