News Archive: December 2016

And finally…. animals as seasonal good health totems around the world

Members
This year our Christmas and New Year’s Card featured the mythical Fire-Fox; a symbol of good health and prosperity in the Suomi Tribes (Lapland Finland). After it went public, we were contacted by many patient organizations who wanted to share their own regional and national totem animal stories...

New WHO Designated Technical Officer for IAPO

Partnerships
New Year is a great time for change and growth. Nittita Prasopa-Plaizier, our designated technical officer (DTO) for the WHO-IAPO official relationship, will move on to bigger and better things in 2017. Many of you met Nittita at our Global Patient Congress in April 2016. Nittita was the Programme...

Global patient movement welcomes new United Nations Secretary General

Partnerships
On 1st January 2017, a new era begins at the United Nations. Mr. António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, will become the next UN Secretary General, replacing Ban Ki-moon. http://bit.ly/2hhWEpq Mr. Guterres was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and the UN High...

Patient movement calls for universal health coverage to become a reality for all

Events
On Saturday 3 December, a global patient movement will rally together on Patient Solidarity Day in a united call for patient-centred universal health coverage for all by 2030. Around 200 leading patient organizations across the world are expected to join forces on Saturday to hold governments and...

Sovereignty preventing global drug regulation harmonization-International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities

Policy
The International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) is an annual event hosted for the benefit of the WHO Member States and their national medicines regulatory authorities (NMRAs); many non-State actors attend a pre-ICDRA conference to share their views with NMRAs. The 17th pre-ICDRA...