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1st Asia Pacific Patients Congress a great success

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On 13th -14th November 2019, 145 of IAPO's member organizations and stakeholders, representing 25 countries came together in Taipei, Taiwan(R.O.C) to attend our Asia Pacific Patients Congress. The Congress was co-hosted by by the International Alliance of Patients' Organizations and its...

The political choice for patient centric and compassionate Universal Health Coverage

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First published on Health Policy Watch at Delivering Universal Health Coverage 2030 In the lead up to the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage where the political declaration on Universal Health Coverage was adopted, Health Policy Watch published the report ‘Health: A Political...

IAPO calls upon expert patients to lead the global effort on improving patient safety today 1st World Patient Safety Day

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17 September 2019 | News Release Today the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations calls upon expert patients to engage with and lead on the global effort to improve patient safety while marking the 1 st World Patient Safety Day. Expert patients are patients with multiple chronic...

69th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa

19 August 2019 to 23 August 2019
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The Sixty-ninth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa will take place in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, from 19 to 23 August 2019. The Regional Committee, comprising health ministers from the 47 countries in the Region, is the Governing Body of WHO in the African Region. Related...

66th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean

14 October 2019 to 17 October 2019
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The Sixty-sixth session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean is scheduled to take place in Parsian Azadi Hotel, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from Monday 14 to Thursday 17 October 2019, inclusive.

IAPO CEO reviews the Essential Medicines List 2019

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IAPO CEO Kawaldip Sehmi was recently featured on the Global Health Matters blog as well as Health Policy Watch where he gives a review of the recently published Essential Medicines List Selection profiling the patient voice. We are pleased to be invited to contribute to these publications which...

Why the WHO’s Essential Medicines List 2019 matters to patient advocates

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On 9 th July 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the updated Essential Medicines List (EML) 2019. What is it? It’s a guidance document from the WHO that helps countries prioritize critical health products that should be widely available, accessible and affordable throughout...

1st Asia Patient Innovation Summit

25 June 2019
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In partnership with Novartis, St. Luke’s Medical Center, International Federation of Psoriasis Association, Cancer Coalition Philippines, and Asian Institute of Management we will be co-hosting the 1st Asia Patient Innovation Summit (APIS). The summit is the product of a coalition of...

WHO Webinar on Medication Safety

20 June 2019
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In recognition of the scale of avoidable harm linked with unsafe medication practices and medication errors, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the third Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm in 2017. The goal was and still is to reduce severe, avoidable medication-...

World Patient Safety Day adopted by 72nd World Health Assembly

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We at IAPO are extremely delighted that on Friday 24 th May 2019 the World Health Organization(WHO) Member States from all 194 countries endorsed the establishment of a World Patient Safety Day to be marked annually on 17 September and officially including it on WHO list of health dates. This is...

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