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THE CONFERENCE COMMENCED ON TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2006 AT GHANA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

OPENING CEREMONIES WERE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED BY THE HONOURABLE COURAGE QUARSHIGAH (MAJOR RETIRED) MINISTER OF HEALTH, REPUBLIC OF GHANA, ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2006. THE CONFERENCE TERMINATED ON SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2006 WITH A DECLARATION. DOUBLE CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL TEXT OF THE DECLARATION.

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“Now in the original Aboriginal stories around the world, and I speak only from one perspective, because I know the Nuu-chah-nulth stories, they teach us where to look for the meaning and purpose of life. And it is certainly not into understanding what the final theory is about the nature of existence. And so where is the purpose and intention that we find in the origin stories? We find, first of all, that there are dimensions to the nature of reality, which are not spoken of in the original stories, because they are not significant from that perspective. They are significant from a scientific prospective; and they are made significant from a scientific perspective because of the fragmentation of reality created by their particular methodology that the spiritual realm is fragmented from the physical realm to the point where it was believed not even to exist by some. But to the original peoples, like the Anishnabes here, there is no significant difference between the spiritual realm and physical realm. The two dimensions are a unity, an order of reality such that the spiritual dimension is found to be the source of the physical, and that means that the spiritual dimension must be the place to look for final answers. That is the teaching of our origin stories that Western philosophers said must be put away before we can make progress. And I have said in my book that that is exactly where to begin”. Dr. E. Richard Atleo (Umeek), Hereditary Chief of The Ahousaht, Author, Research Liaison of University of Manitoba and Adjunct Associate Professor of University of Victoria, Canada, at the Global Conference On The Role of Traditional Medicine In Reproductive Health, Minnesota, USA – July 26-28, 2005.

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Africa First, LLC of Minnesota, USA, in association with the Ghana Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, United Nations Joint Programmes On HIV/AIDS, Ghana AIDS Commission, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Centre for Scientific Research Into Plant Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Federation of Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association, the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, Society for Plant Medicinal Research (GA), Traditional & Modern Health Care Providers Together Against AIDS (THETA) of Uganda, Prometra Ghana, Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA), Traditional Health Practitioners Association of Zambia (THPAZ) and  a host of local and international organizations involved in HIV/AIDS activities, is pleased to invite all health policy makers, indigenous peoples, health institutions, scientists, orthodox medical practitioners, medical schools, medical associations, medical students, traditional health practitioners, botanists, foundations, hospitals, pharmaceutical and bio-technological companies, legal practitioners, law schools, law students and law societies, environmentalists, HIV-Caregivers, people living with HIV/AIDS, and the citizens of the world to a Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Greenhill, Accra, Republic of Ghana, on March 14-18, 2006.