News Archive: February 2015

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Global campaign for injection safety

Policy
This week the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new global strategy and campaign for injection safety.

60 seconds with... Emiko Tsuji, Osaka City University Hospital Cancer Patient Support Club

Members
60 Seconds with... IAPO member Emiko Tsuji, from GINNAN, based in Japan. Emiko answered a few questions for us.

Rare Disease Day 2015: Day-by-day, hand-in-hand

Events
Rare Disease Day took place on 28 February 2015, uniting patients and patients’ organizations around the world to raise awareness about rare diseases.

The importance of UHC and the need for transparency

Policy
The importance of universal health coverage and the need for transparency at the World Health Organization's Executive Board meeting, January 2015.

Online biosimilar platform launching soon

Resources
IAPO Americas is an online platform which provides patients’ organizations from across the region of Latin America with up-to-date, evidence-based information on the science, technology and regulatory information relevant to biological and biosimilar medicines.

Celebrating success of ethical collaboration framework

Events
The first anniversary of the Consensus Framework for Ethical Collaboration, between patients’ organizations, healthcare professionals and the pharmaceutical industry, was marked on the fringes of the 135th World Health Organization Executive Board meeting in Geneva, on 26 January 2015.