- Update on EFA Allergy Awareness project (June 2011)
- The EFA Respiratory Allergy Awareness project is currently underway and responses to our questionnaire for patient groups have so far been received from 15 countries across Europe. The questionnaire ...
- EFA in 2nd ICC World Conference of COPD patient organisation
- Preparations are underway for the 2nd World Conference of COPD Patient Organisations. This year it will take place on November 6th and 7th in Shanghai, and will be conducted by the International COPD ...
- Announcing the EFA Allergy Awareness Project
- EFA has started to work on the 'EFA Allergy Awareness Project', an initiative to raise awareness of respiratory allergies as serious and chronic diseases. The project will highlight the need for act ...
- Global Allergy and Asthma Platform gets organised
- The 3rd meeting of the GA²P², the Global Allergy and Asthma Patient Platform, a project initiated by EFA, will be held on the 11th of June 2011 at the Intercontinental (Ceylan Istanbul) Hote ...
- Press Release: Two thirds of people with asthma do not lead a full life
- Two thirds of people with asthma do not lead a full life because of their condition, new survey reports BRUSSELS, 6 May 2008, World Asthma Day (WAD) - Two in three people with asthma still feel that ...
- Press Release: Largest survey ever on severe asthma
- Largest survey ever on severe asthma highlights true impact and need for improved care across Europe Brussels, March 5, 2007 – A groundbreaking survey revealing the potentially ...
- Lithuanian National Asthma Congress
- Both EFA and ERS supported the third Lithuanian National Asthma Congress, that was organised on 8 October 2005 in Vilnius by the Lithuanian Pulmonology Society in collaboration with the Lithuanian Cou ...
- First Allergy Cookbook published by EFA
- The Pulmonary and Allergy Patients Association of Slovenia have published the first allergy cookbook in the style of the Belgian ‘Fondation pour la Prevention des Allergies’ (FPA)’s ...
- European asthma patients living in isolation and fear of fatal attack
- European Respiratory Society Congress, Copenhagen, Monday, 19 September, 2005 – The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA) launches a new report i ...
- Oxygen supply for COPD patients traveling abroad
- Oxygen supply for COPD patients traveling abroad On 1 September 2005, the Netherlands based Oxygen supply company, CARE 0², who organizes various details involved in delivering medical oxygen r ...
- Launch of EFA Fighting for Breath Severe Asthma Report
- EFA launched the results of the survey: Fighting for Breath - a European Patient's Perspective on Severe Asthma at the ERS Congress in Copenhagen this month. The first report of its kind, the report i ...
- Press Release: A European patient perspective on severe asthma
- 1.5 million Europeans fear their asthma will kill them “Fighting for Breath” - A European patient perspective on severe asthma World Asthma Day, 3rd May 2005 - New research reported by EFA (the Eu ...
- Learn to Live with Asthma - EFA project
- In 2005 EFA completed its project on “Learning to Live with Asthma” aimed at answering important questions for asthma patients about coping with asthma-related problems. The main questio ...
- The Burden of Asthma in Europe
- World Asthma Day, 14 May 2004 - On World Asthma Day 4 May 2004 GINA Global Initiative for Asthma published their Global Burden of Asthma report. The report is based on standardized data collected in e ...
- Food Allergy Patients in Europe want to know what they eat
- 17th May 2003 - Food Labelling. An estimated 4 % of the adults and 8 % of the children in EU suffer from food allergy. EFA, the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Asso ...