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IAPO calls upon expert patients to lead the global effort on improving patient safety today 1st World Patient Safety Day

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17 September 2019 | News Release Today the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations calls upon expert patients to engage with and lead on the global effort to improve patient safety while marking the 1st World Patient Safety Day. Expert patients are patients with multiple chronic...

IAPO CEO reviews the Essential Medicines List 2019

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IAPO CEO Kawaldip Sehmi was recently featured on the Global Health Matters blog as well as Health Policy Watch where he gives a review of the recently published Essential Medicines List Selection profiling the patient voice. We are pleased to be invited to contribute to these publications which...

Why the WHO’s Essential Medicines List 2019 matters to patient advocates

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On 9th July 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the updated Essential Medicines List (EML) 2019. What is it? It’s a guidance document from the WHO that helps countries prioritize critical health products that should be widely available, accessible and affordable throughout health...

IAPO at the 72nd World Health Assembly

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Patients in full support of the development of gene and cell therapy The 72nd annual World Health Assembly ( #WHA72) took place in Geneva from 20-28 May. The IAPO team was represented throughout the WHA and hosted an event on the side-lines of the 72nd World Health Assembly. Here’s our wrap up. In...

World Patient Safety Day adopted by 72nd World Health Assembly

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We at IAPO are extremely delighted that on Friday 24th May 2019 the World Health Organization(WHO) Member States from all 194 countries endorsed the establishment of a World Patient Safety Day to be marked annually on 17 September and officially including it on WHO list of health dates. This is...

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. The 2019...

Inspiring the public to take up the challenge of ending malaria

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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 for...

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 assist...

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

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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 the...

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