The rising tide of falsified medicines – a major public health threat

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The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy (ASOP EU) is on a mission to create and promote an environment that enables patients to safely buy their medicines online in a space permitted by law. Mike Isles, Executive Director ASOP EU explores this further. The manufacture and distribution of fake...

Achieving safer healthcare for all: The world unites for PSD2018

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Patient Solidarity Day 2018 has come and gone and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Our goal this year was to elevate the momentum in the conversation around Safe healthcare and we are excited to see patient safety continue to receive global prioritisation and look forward to...

IAPO members’ PSD2018 photo competition winner is...

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We are pleased to announce that the overall winner of our Patient Solidarity Day 2018 photo competition is Uganda Alliance of Patients Organizations (UAPO) Congratulations,UAPO! UAPO was successful in submitting a photo that majority of the criteria set out in the photo competition here. For their...

Patient Safety Movement Foundation on a mission of getting to zero preventable deaths

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Patient Safety Movement (PSM) a non-profit organization committed to eliminating the more than 4,800,000 preventable deaths that occur in hospitals across the world every year joined us in marking PSD2018. They do this through encouraging hospitals to implement Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (...

IAPO member celebrated as a heart hero for World Heart Day

Members
We would like to congratulate IAPO member Migdalia Denis, President and Founder of Pulmonary Hypertension Latin Society who was celebrated as a heart hero for World Heart Day. Migdalia shares her story with us. I’ve been an advocate for Latin American patients since the foundation of Sociedad...

Renewable energy and healthcare: IAPO at IRENA

Members
Kawaldip Sehmi, IAPO CEO, attended the First International Conference on Renewable Energy for Healthcare (IRENA) in Singapore 2 November 2018 where a stimulating discussion took place around the availability of reliable, affordable and safe electricity supply that powers 90% of the health devices...

The expert patient is a resource that primary health care must utilise

Members
IAPO as a global patients' organisation must appreciate the globalism of health care initiatives and their links with the global economic, social, political and technological developments. The Declaration on Primary Health Care Astana adopted on 25 October 2018 in Astana Kazakhstan must be...

Not all meds get along: Celebrating a successful Canadian Patient Safety Week!

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Dan Costigan, Senior Director Strategic Communications at the Canadian Patient Safety Institute shares the outcomes of the Canadian Patient Safety Week, which aimed at engaging the general public, health providers and leaders in making patient safety a priority in Canada. This year, Canadian...

IAPO member joins Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences working group

Members
IAPO Member, Regina Mariam Kamoga from Community Health and Information Network (CHAIN) in Uganda, shares her experience in joining the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) working group aimed at involving patients in the development and safe use of medicines. Gone...

IAPO member CUI.D.AR supercharge their advocacy efforts for Type 1 Diabetes

Members
The Association for Diabetes Care in Argentina, CUI.D.AR, together with a group of children and young adults with type 1 diabetes, met with the Argentinian Minister of Health, Dr. Adolfo Rubinstein, and members of Congress Nicolás Massot and Carmen Polledo and the National Senator Esteban Bullrich...

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