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WHO Webinar on Medication Safety

20 June 2019
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In recognition of the scale of avoidable harm linked with unsafe medication practices and medication errors, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the third Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm in 2017. The goal was and still is to reduce severe, avoidable medication-...

World Patient Safety Day adopted by 72nd World Health Assembly

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We at IAPO are extremely delighted that on Friday 24 th 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...

ICN Congress 2019 Singapore

27 June 2019 to 1 July 2019
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Hosted by the Singapore Nurses Association, this international gathering of thousands of nurses will explore the many ways in which nurses work to achieve universal access to health, not only providing health care but also addressing the social determinants of health, such as education, gender...

72nd World Health Assembly

20 May 2019 to 28 May 2019
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The Seventy-second World Health Assembly will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 20 to 28 May 2019. The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the decision-making body of WHO and is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States. The WHA focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive...

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...

Momentum on Global Action for Patient safety continues to build

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We at IAPO are extremely delighted that the 144th Session of the WHO Executive Board (EB), deliberated on the agenda item ‘Global Action on Patient Safety’ and adopted the Executive Board Resolution ‘ Global Action on Patient Safety’ on 31 January 2019 including the...

Improving patient safety and fighting fake medicines in Europe

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The European Medicines Verification Organisation, an IAPO partner through the Fight the Fakes campaign launched the world’s first digital verification system covering the medicines supply chain across Europe that promises greater security against falsified medicines. The launch of the world...

The rising tide of falsified medicines – a major public health threat

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The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy (ASOP EU) is on a mission to create and promote an environment that enables patients to safely buy their medicines online in a space permitted by law. Mike Isles, Executive Director ASOP EU explores this further. The manufacture and distribution of fake...

Achieving safer healthcare for all: The world unites for PSD2018

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Patient Solidarity Day 2018 has come and gone and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Our goal this year was to elevate the momentum in the conversation around Safe healthcare and we are excited to see patient safety continue to receive global prioritisation and look forward to...

IAPO members’ PSD2018 photo competition winner is...

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We are pleased to announce that the overall winner of our Patient Solidarity Day 2018 photo competition is Uganda Alliance of Patients Organizations (UAPO) Congratulations,UAPO! UAPO was successful in submitting a photo that majority of the criteria set out in the photo competition here. For their...

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