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A look at the traditional pharmacopoeia and its link with sports from Latin America and the Caribbean |
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28 May 2021/ UNESCO Havana
On the morning of May 27, the Regional Ministerial Webinar “Traditional Pharmacopoeia, sport values and COVID-19: a regional perspective” was carried out. The event, held for the Latin American region, was attended by the President of the Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7), Mr. Marcos Diaz, the President of the Anti-Doping Fund Approval Committee, Dr. Reema Alhosani, and the Deputy Director General for Social and Human Sciences, Mrs. Gabriela Ramos. In addition, the event was joined by Ministers of Sports, authorities of the sector, athletes, and academics and experts, who debated for two and a half hours on the impact of the traditional pharmacopoeia on the values of sports.
Cuba was represented by the participation of expert Jose Ramon Acosta Sariego, member of the CIB, Vice-President of UNESCO Bioethics Network for Latin American and Caribbean, and Founding Member of the Andres Kolychkine Thompson Honorary Chair of Sports Ethics and Fair Play of “Victoria de Giron” College of Medical Sciences, Havana University of Medical Sciences.
His intervention drew attention to the need to focus on the issue of the use of the traditional pharmacopoeia not only in high-performance athletes, but also in non-professional practitioners who use sports recreationally, which reinforces the need for education in these topics both in sports schools and in general education. In these sports practices, which are even carried out to seek aesthetic results, there are more cases of doping than in traditional sports, and it is important to increase knowledge and research on these issues. On the other hand, Victor Cabrera, National Focal Point of the Anti-Doping Convention, on behalf of Mr. Osvaldo C. Vento Montiller, President of INDER, commented on the work with athletes in this complex stage given the COVID-19 crisis, strategies to prioritize their vaccination, and work facing the Tokyo Olympics.
For her part, Dr. Karina Gonzalez, Head of Sports Medicine, on behalf of the Minister of Sports, Mr. Francisco Jose Camacho Rivas, from the Dominican Republic, highlighted the importance of the educational approach among recreational sports practitioners and young people, with an emphasis on the use of traditional medicines and the pharmacopoeia without endangering their health. Also present for the Caribbean region were Ernst Gilmus, President of the National Institute of Youth and Sports Sciences, representing the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Ronald Gérard D'Mézard, from Haiti, and Elmonda Chase, pharmacist and trained in the field of Barbados traditional pharmacopoeia, among others.
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