- EFA contributes to EPIS Summit
- Digital solutions have the potential to improve the life of millions of European patients and transform the way we deliver care at country level. However, the uptake of digital solutions is still low ...
- Follow up to European Parliament resolution on clean air:
- The European Commission produced a follow-up document to the EP non-legislative resolution on ‘’A Europe that Protects: Clean Air for All’’, adopted in March. Among others, the resolution made special ...
- EFA at EPF 2019 Congress
- For the very first time, the European Patient Forum (EPF) organised a Congress on meaningful patient involvement. Between Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th, 300 delegates, including patient advocates, he ...
- Scientific Panel for health and Finnish EU Presidency set the scene for prevention research and its implementation in Europe
- The Finnish EU Presidency and the Horizon 2020 scientific panel for health organised a workshop ‘Better Health and Wellbeing’ to look at success in prevention, implementing prevention research outcome ...
- EFA becomes observer in Codex Alimentarius Commission
- Starting in late October, EFA has been granted observer status in the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Thus, EFA will be subject to follow, attend and provide input to the CAC sessions and meetings, wit ...
- EFA Capacity Building 2019: Evidence Based advocacy
- Between November 26th and 27th, EFA members were invited to Strasbourg to engage in a 2-day programme, consisting of presentations from external speakers and a practical workshop. During the presentat ...
- Moving forward to better management and personalised therapy in asthma and COPD
- However, recent studies have shown that on a molecular level, certain patterns are shared by patients, suggesting that they may also share pathways of response to treatment and disease progression. ...
- EFA-Live: Tackling Second-Hand Smoke
- Brussels, 10.10.2019. Tobacco is still the deadliest preventable source of disease in Europe, causing more than 700.000 premature deaths every year. New research presented at the European Parliament a ...
- EFA Statement of Condolence on the Death of Hubert Nettel, EFA Board Member and Treasurer
- Sep 24, 2019 Brussels, Belgium (September 24, 2019) – Mikaela Odemyr, president of the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA) made the following statement r ...
- EFA launches European report "Active Patients Access Care"
- EFA eagerly launches its new European report “Active Asthma and COPD Patients ACCESS Care”. The report unveils new patient evidence on asthma and COPD patients’ access to diagnosis and care, involveme ...
- EFA launches new European report “Active Patients ACCESS Care”
- EFA eagerly launches its new European report “Active Asthma and COPD Patients ACCESS Care”. The report unveils new patient evidence on asthma and COPD patients’ access to diagnosis and care, involveme ...
- EFA at 69th WHO Regional Committee in Copenhagen
- Ahead of this important meeting, EFA produced a video statement which looked into the lessons learnt from the implementation of WHO Health2020 framework in the European region. WHO’s work in 2018/19 ...
- 2nd Atopic Eczema Day has been a big success!
- #1: AtopicalLives online photo exhibition and video Our AtopicalLives online photo gallery and video introduces eczema patients from several countries and shows their daily lives with the disease, t ...
- Global Vaccination Summit
- EFA attended the 1st Global Vaccination Summit, held in Brussels on 12th September. The summit was a joint organisational effort of the European Commission and the World Health Organisation (WHO). T ...
- EFA response to EMA public consultation on Drug-Device Combination
- In June, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) launched a public consultation on the basis of a draft guideline discussing the ‘Quality requirements for drug-device combinations’. The draft guideline pr ...
- EFA at European Health Stakeholder Meeting in the European Parliament
- On September 12th, EFA participated in a panel-discussion in the European Parliament on “Brexit: the European Parliaments’ role in prioritising patients, public health and health security across Europ ...
- Health is In! and with more responsibility in the new European Commission
- The European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen announced the names and portfolios of the new college of Commissioners. The health files were handed to Stella Kyriakides from Cyprus who h ...
- EFA response to HMA public consultation on allergen product development
- In April, the network of Heads of Medicines Agencies in the EU (HMA) launched a public consultation on common regulatory approaches for allergen products. The consultation puts several draft recommend ...
- EFA celebrates World Patient Safety Day
- On September 17th, EFA has been active on the World Health Organizations’ (WHO) 1st World Patient Safety Day. The day has been set up to create awareness for patient safety and urge people for support ...
- WHO publishes 2019 report on the global tobacco epidemic
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published the 7th WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic. This year, the report focused on the progress that countries have made to help tobacco users quit. ...