PMID- 25006089
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151026
LR  - 20140709
IS  - 2150-4113 (Electronic)
IS  - 1079-0969 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Jun 14
TI  - Traditional/alternative medicines and the right to health: Key elements for a 
      convention on global health.
PG  - E44-57
AB  - Little has been done to investigate and promote the importance of 
      non-conventional medicines (NCMs) in the realization of the right to health, yet 
      all over the world people regularly resort to NCMs to secure healing or to 
      prevent or mitigate the occurrence of a wide range of morbidities. This study 
      aims to elucidate the theoretical framework of the role of NCMs in realizing the 
      right to health, to identify the potential manifestations and causes of 
      violations of the right to health in their practice, and to propose the practice 
      of NCMs that could be included in a Framework Convention on Global Health. We use 
      both the documentary analysis and the violation of rights approaches. Through a 
      non-directive review of the literature, we have tried to clarify the concepts and 
      uniqueness of NCMs. We have also tried to unveil the challenges facing NCMs in a 
      context where conventional medicines assume extensive power. The human rights 
      approach has enabled us to bring to light the potential challenges to the rights 
      of the various stakeholders that NCMs create. We argue that NCMs can contribute 
      to realizing the right to health through their availability, accessibility, 
      acceptability, and relative quality. The Framework Convention on Global Health 
      could contribute to the effective realization of this right by integrating basic 
      principles to ensure the recognition, protection, promotion, and conservation of 
      NCMs-at least of those NCMs that have shown evidence of efficacy-as well as 
      catalyzing increased international cooperation in this area.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Mpinga, Kandolo, Verloo, Bukonda, Kandala, Chastonay. This is an 
      open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons 
      Attribution Non-Commercial License 
      (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted 
      non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the 
      original author and source are credited.
FAU - Mpinga, Emmanuel Kabengele
AU  - Mpinga EK
AD  - Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva.
FAU - Kandolo, Tshimungu
AU  - Kandolo T
AD  - Institut Superieur des Techniques Medicales in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of 
      Congo.
FAU - Verloo, Henk
AU  - Verloo H
AD  - Applied University of Health Sciences La Source, Lausanne, Switzerland.
FAU - Bukonda, Ngoyi K Zacharie
AU  - Bukonda NK
AD  - Department of Public Health Sciences, Wichita State University.
FAU - Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin
AU  - Kandala NB
AD  - University of Oxford (KEMRI-Oxford Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme), 
      Warwick Medical School.
FAU - Chastonay, Philippe
AU  - Chastonay P
AD  - Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and the Unit of Development and 
      Research in Medical Education, University of Geneva.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130614
PL  - United States
TA  - Health Hum Rights
JT  - Health and human rights
JID - 9502498
SB  - IM
MH  - Consumer Product Safety
MH  - *Global Health
MH  - *Health Services Accessibility
MH  - *Human Rights
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Phytotherapy/standards
EDAT- 2013/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2015/10/27 06:00
CRDT- 2014/07/10 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/10/27 06:00 [medline]
PST - epublish
SO  - Health Hum Rights. 2013 Jun 14;15(1):E44-57.