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Samvel Azatyan, Group Lead, Regulatory Networks and Harmonisation,World Health Organization, explores medicine regulation and harmonisation highlighting the role that the WHO is playing. Access to health care and medical products is one of the fundamental human rights. WHO is committed to enhancing...
Don't just sit there, September is pain awareness month. Regardless of your priorities, the campaign can be easily adapted for use in your local and national activities. Through a global effort we can together achieve increased awareness among relevant stakeholders so that chronic pain can be recognised, effectively treated and managed.
On 4th – 5th July 2017, IAPO held its 3rd African Regional Meeting. This was an opportunity for the community of IAPO’s African members to come together and call for the establishment of a patient-centric African Medicines Agency. In this respect, it was highlighted how important it is to ensure...
On 4th - 5th July 2017, 30 of IAPO’s member organizations and stakeholders, representing ten African countries, came together in Entebbe, Uganda, to attend our African Regional Meeting. The meeting culminated in delegates making a united call for a patient-centred African Medicines Agency (AMA), in...
This year's road map for the fight against viral hepatitis continues to be led by the World Hepatitis Alliance as it aims to build on the momentum to meet the goal of eliminating hepatitis following the adoption of WHO’s global hepatitis elimination strategy in 2016 .
The Thalassaemia International Federation takes initiative and action through the establishment of a World Alliance representing multi-transfused individuals aiming to raise awareness and support the work of WHO and of all the governments, and also raise public awareness about the risks of transfusions that may stem from the non-implementation of security protocols and the lack of compliance with relevant resolutions. This is all for the promotion of Blood Safety and Availability.
As we prepare to mark World Hepatitis Day on 28th July, the Hepatitis Foundation of Ghana gives us an overview of the situation in Ghana as all countries in the African Region consider viral hepatitis an urgent public health issue with the burden of viral hepatitis believed to be one of the highest in this part of the world.
Kawaldip Sehmi, IAPO CEO, explores medicine regulation in Latin America to develop national capacity within medicines regulatory authorities to approve medicines in a timely manner and to ensure acceptable quality, safety and efficacy standards within their borders.
This month’s policy briefing focuses on patient safety. Patient safety is strongly connected with the second key theme of the IAPO 2017 engagement and empowerment plan: access. On the one hand, patient safety represents in itself one of the basic features of patient-centred healthcare. On the other...
The long wait is over: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been elected as the World Health Organization’s new director-general by the World Health Assembly. The former minister of health of Ethiopia beat two other finalists in the race — the U.K.’s David Nabarro and Pakistan’s Sania Nishtar — with a...

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