World Health Statistics 2019 disaggregated by sex for the first time

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The World Health Statistics series is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. The series is produced by WHO’s Division for Data, Analytics and Delivery, in collaboration with WHO technical departments and regional offices...

Inspiring the public to take up the challenge of ending malaria

Press and media
After more than a decade of steady progress in fighting malaria, progress seems to be stalling. According to the World Health Organization’s latest World malaria report, no significant gains have been made in reducing malaria cases in the period 2015 to 2017. 2019 is therefore a critical year...

Patient Organizations at the 72nd World Health Assembly

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In the lead up to the 72nd World Health Assembly happening between 20 - 28 May, IAPO will be doing a series that aims is to provide insight into how the WHO works with patients’ organizatons and the benefits of these collaborations as well as how they are established. This series aims to...

The role of patient value and patient-centred care in health systems 

Partnerships
Patient-centred care, with its emphasis on patient value, is a widespread health system goal. To examine the progress of the evolution towards more patient-centred health care and draw lesson for the future, The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey and interviews on patient...

Highlights of the 4th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety

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Momentum continues to be built for the global patient safety agenda as health stakeholders gathered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between 2-3 March 2019 for the 4th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety. The focus of this year’s summit was to develop and define strategies that would support...

Rare Diseases and Universal Health Coverage : a mutually reinforcing agenda

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Rare Disease Day 2019,a day to raise awareness amongst the general public on rare diseases and encourage researchers and decision makers to address the needs of patients with rare diseases was this year marked with a lot of activity. One notable activity was the NGO Committee for Rare Disease...

Rare Disease Day 2019: bridging health and social care

Events
On 28 February 2019, people living with or affected by a rare disease, patient organizations, politicians, carers, medical professionals, researchers and industry will come together to celebrate the twelfth annual Rare Disease Day. A patient-led campaign, organizations in over 70 countries and...

Momentum on Global Action for Patient safety continues to build

Press and media
We at IAPO are extremely delighted that the 144th Session of the WHO Executive Board (EB), deliberated on the agenda item ‘Global Action on Patient Safety’ and adopted the Executive Board Resolution ‘ Global Action on Patient Safety’ on 31 January 2019 including the...

Improving patient safety and fighting fake medicines in Europe

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The European Medicines Verification Organisation, an IAPO partner through the Fight the Fakes campaign launched the world’s first digital verification system covering the medicines supply chain across Europe that promises greater security against falsified medicines. The launch of the world...

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...

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