WHO global health plan to boost CAM

The World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global strategy on traditional medicine, which provides a framework for policy to assist countries around the world to regulate traditional medicine or CAM to make its use safer, more accessible to populations and sustainable. The WHO states that while the use of traditional medicine is widespread in developing countries and increasingly used in the West, only 25 of WHO’s 191 members have a policy on traditional medicine. One key aim of WHO’s strategy is to improve the evidence base for traditional medicine, enabling them to identify safe and effective therapies that can be made widely available.

http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/trm_strat_eng.pdf