Events

World MS Day is officially marked on 30 May each year. Events and campaigns take place throughout the month of May as an effort to bring the global MS community together to share stories, raise awareness and campaign with and for everyone affected by multiple sclerosis. The 2018 campaign will be...

Achieving Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals On 25-26 October 2018, the world will come together to renew a commitment to strengthening primary health care to achieve Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. This commitment will be expressed in a...

World Malaria Day is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. This year’s global theme is Ready to beat Malaria. This theme underscores the collective energy and commitment of the global malaria community in...

This is the first of a series of educational webinars for the community of patients living with chronic pain, organized by FindMeCure Foundation and the Chronic Pain Ireland with support from the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations This webinar aims to explore how treatments in...

The World Oral Health Day campaign aims to educate people that keeping a healthy mouth is crucial to keeping it functioning correctly and for maintaining overall health and quality of life. It highlights associations between certain oral diseases and noncommunicable diseases (such as diabetes,...

The 8th Global Patients Congress, Empowered Patients Building the Momentum, will take place from 24th-26th May 2018 in Miami in the sunshine State of Florida USA, at the Miami Marriott Dadeland. Congress brings together around 200 patient advocates from across the world. Organizations of all sizes...

This year’s World AIDS Day campaign will focus on the right to health. It will explore the challenges people around the world face in exercising their right to health and will provide information about the right to health and what impact it has on people’s lives. It will also aim to increase the...

World Psoriasis Day is dedicated to people living with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. The day aims to raise awareness of this disease and increase knowledge of the effect it has on people’s lives. Psoriasis affects over 125 million people around the world – not just physically, but also socially...

The Sixty-fourth Session of WHO’s Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean will open on Monday evening, 9 October 2017, in Islamabad, Pakistan. As WHO’s governing body at the regional level, the Regional Committee comprises representatives of all 22 countries in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean...