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Don't just sit there, September is pain awareness month. Regardless of your priorities, the campaign can be easily adapted for use in your local and national activities. Through a global effort we can together achieve increased awareness among relevant stakeholders so that chronic pain can be recognised, effectively treated and managed.

On 4th - 5th July 2017, 30 of IAPO’s member organizations and stakeholders, representing ten African countries, came together in Entebbe, Uganda, to attend our African Regional Meeting. The meeting culminated in delegates making a united call for a patient-centred African Medicines Agency (AMA), in...

When Roberta Alves Silva of Belo Horizonte, Brazil was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 14 years old, she spent years trying to understand and control her disease before using an insulin pump. But it took attending a camp for kids with diabetes to transform her life. “Being a part of the Colonia...

On 4th – 5th July, IAPO’s member organizations in Africa will be coming together to address the next steps forward for joined-up healthcare across the continent.

We are pleased to announce the side-events that we are co-hosting at the 70th World Health Assembly, taking place from 22-31 May 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. Biotherapeutics & the next 70 years: Delivering on their potential for patients globally Date: 23 May 2017 Time: 12:00-14:00hrs Location...

By Joshua Wamboga, IAPO Chair-Elect I am delighted that the Uganda Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (UAPO) will be co-hosting the key upcoming regional meeting for the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations' (IAPO) members in Africa. The meeting which will take place in Uganda, 4-5​...

Kawaldip Sehmi, IAPO CEO, explores World No Tobacco Day marked every year on 30th May 2017.

At the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva in May 2016, IAPO raised the issue of access to health services by chronically ill refugees, migrants and internally displaced people. This issue will be revisited during the forthcoming World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland from 22-27 May, 2017.