The Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a 'Project Collaboration Agreement' on Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Geneva.

The Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a 'Project Collaboration Agreement' on Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Geneva. The main objective of this agreement is to standardize traditional and complementary medicine systems, integrate their quality and safety aspects into national health systems and disseminate them internationally. Through this cooperation agreement, efforts will be made to connect traditional and complementary medical systems with the mainstream of the national health system. To achieve this objective, the Traditional Medicine Global Strategy 2025-34 will be prepared by WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of AYUSH. An international herbal pharmacopoeia containing herbs found in South-East Asia will be developed by the Ministry in collaboration with WHO. Under this agreement, efforts will be made to integrate evidence-based traditional and complementary medicines with the national health system, conservation and management of biodiversity and medicinal plants etc.