- Tour de France with COPD
- French EFA member FFAAIR, has organized for the second time the “COPD Tour de France” between November 18th and 22nd. Patient organisations and patients were invited to participate by cycling or walki ...
- FFAAIR celebrates its Annual Congress
- In May 2019, EFA Member Fédération Française des Associations et Amicales de malades insuffisants ou handicapés Respiratoires (FFAIR) held its Annual Congress in Bayonne, France. During the congress, ...
- French Eczema Association celebrates Eczema Day
- On June 1st, EFA French Member, Association Française de l'Eczéma celebrated the national Eczema Day with a conference in Paris.
- AFPRAL co-signs open letter to French Minister of Health
- EFA Member the Association Française pour la Prévention des Allergies (AFPRAL) has co-signed an open letter calling on the French Minister of Health to address the exclusion of young children with chr ...
- European Atopic Eczema Day
- Last September 14th the atopic eczema patient community belonging to EFA’s Members marked the first ever European Atopic Eczema Awareness Day to inform and bring attention to this allergic disease ...
- New President for the food allergy patients in France
- AFPRAL, the French Association for the Prevention of Allergies, has a new elected president, Pascale Couratier, replacing exiting President Véronique Olivier. Pascale has been working for AFPRAL for m ...
- EUROPEAN REPORT: Itching for life - Quality of Life and costs for people with severe atopic eczema in Europe
- EFA's 2018 European report Itching for Life: Quality of Life and costs for people living with severe atopic eczema in Europe uncovers the reality of atopic eczema, a chronic inflammatory skin dis ...
- FFAAIR brings the patient perspective and needs to major respiratory congresses in France
- 2018 has started with a bunch of important events devoted to respiratory diseases in France, and EFA Member FFAAIR has been an active member in many of them: the Franchophone Lung Society Congress cel ...
- COPD should be treated as a public health emergency, French patients claim
- EFA French member FFAAIR together with other patients and healthcare professionals’ organisations and with the support of a group of parliamentarians presented “Make COPD a public health emer ...
- Join French allergy patients to get access to desensitisation treatments
- EFA member AFPRAL (in French, l’Association Française pour la Prévention des Allergies) launched in January a campaign defending the reimbursement for allergy desensitisation treatments. French heal ...
- EFA and FFAAIR work together to build capacity
- EFA met with French member FFAAIR (French Federation of people with respiratory diseases) on the 15th November in Paris. The objective of this reencounter was to follow-up with the Capacity Building s ...
- Severe food allergy campaign in France
- EFA’s Member the French Association for the Prevention of Allergies has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the severity of food allergy. A press conference on the campaing will be organi ...
- Comic on COPD diagnosis and treatement
- Material: A comic explaining how is COPD diagnosed and treated Original name: La BPCO, Broncho Pneumopathie Chronique Obstructive Author: French Federation of Friends of Lung and Respiratory ...
- Launch of the Asthma Museum, a multilingual website
- An initiative launched in France, originally in Russian and translated into English. That is the online Asthma Museum, a website put together by Liliya Belenko, Chair of EFA’s Patient Education Workin ...
- Comic on asthma diagnosis and treatment
- Material: A comic explaining how is asthma diagnosed and treated Original name: Asthme: Depistage et Prise en Charge Author: French Federation of Friends of Lung and Respiratory Disabled Pati ...
- First steps in harmonising COPD Care across Europe
- Our 2014 report “Harmonizing Prevention and Other Measures for COPD Patients across Europe” revealed varying levels of COPD care across Europe. Following on from this research, and with the help of EF ...
- Plain Packaging Developments Spreading throughout Europe
- France is the latest country to introduce plain cigarette packaging from 2016. Cigarettes in France will be sold in plain packaging under a law that was finally passed in the French parliament in Dece ...
- Developments in Tobacco Control
- On the 6th of November, EFA Senior EU Policy Advisor Roberta Savli participated in a meeting with the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (SG SANTE) and several other non-profit organisatio ...
- Emergency anaphylasis, a French patient-led campaign
- Last June EFA Member the French Assocaition for Allergy Prevention (AFPRAL) launched a major awareness campaign to improve knowledge on how to perform lifesaving care in case of anaphylactic shock. Th ...
- FFAAIR Celebrates Annual Congress
- EFA Member FFAAIR (Fédération Française des Associations et Amicales de malades, Insuffisants ou handicapés Respiratoires) met on 5-7 June in Grenoble to celebrate its 27th Annual General Meeting. Mor ...