Welcome to the latest Global Patients Congress newsletter from a cold IAPO office! Momentum around the event is building and the programme is shaping up to be the best ever.
World Cancer Day unites the world’s population in the fight against cancer. It aims to save millions of preventable deaths each year by raising awareness and educating about the disease, pressing governments and individuals across the world to take action.
On 29 February 2016, people living with or affected by a rare disease, patient organizations, politicians, carers, medical professionals, researchers and industry will come together to celebrate the ninth annual Rare Disease Day.
Technological advances in scientific research have placed us in a universe of knowledge that today allows us to speak of more than 8,000 rare diseases (EPOF) that affect 8% of the world population, as determined by WHO. However, governments are not following at the same pace, causing a gap between knowledge of treatment and access to treatment.
By Brian Kennedy, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Patient A ccess. In December I had the pleasure of participating in the Latin American Patient Summit on Biotherapeutics, where I offered the assembled advocates some unexpected advice: tell stories.
We are delighted to announce that the open call process for presenters is now live for the 7th Global Patients Congress, to be held in London, April 2016. Please apply below.
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