News Archive: June 2021

Announcing the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance – AMATA

Press and media
As a next step in IAPO’s campaign calling for Heads of State and Government to ratify the African Medicines Agency Treaty , we are delighted to inform you that we will be launching the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA) on the 22nd June 2021 at the upcoming high-level meeting on the...

Big win for patients: Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030 adopted by 74th World Health Assembly

Press and media
We at IAPO are extremely delighted that Member States at the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly deliberated and agreed to take concrete action to eliminate avoidable harm in health care by adopting the first ever “Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030”. This is very exciting news as IAPO...

Call for speakers and moderators -1st African Patients Congress

Events
The 1st virtual African Patients Congress (APC 2020) will bring together our regional membership with a variety of high-level healthcare stakeholders to share their vision and experience as to how patients can engage with and co-create in building back better the African health system post-pandemic...

IAPO Statements at 74th World Health Assembly, May 2021

Press and media
The seventy-fourth World Health Assembly (WHA74) commenced on 24 May 2021 and concluded its sessions on 31 May 2021. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the event was held virtually under the theme “ Ending this pandemic, preventing the next: building together a healthier, safer and fairer...