EFA advocates for a centralised European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant European vulnerabilities in preparing for and responding to cross-border health threats. Member States have struggled to strategise health...
EFA 2021 Project: Atopic Eczema Consensus Europe
In the past years, EFA has been vocal in advocating change for all people living with atopic eczema in Europe. One of our most relevant contributions has...
Europe’s Zero Pollution Action Plan: ambition without tools?
On 12 May the European Commission published its much awaited Zero Pollution Action Plan for Air, Water and Soil (ZPAP). Living in uncompromised environments,...
Renovation of buildings: EFA calls to include Indoor Air Quality considerations in the revision of EPBD
Arising from the Renovation Wave initiative presented by the European Commission in October 2020, the revision of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings...
EFA response to EFSA’s 2022-2027 Strategy consultation
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the authority responsible for providing the EU and its Member States with independent scientific advice and...
EU scientific opinion on electronic cigarettes integrates EFA’s recommendations
The rapid introduction and increasing use of electronic cigarettes require urgent attention. Despite their popularity and commercialisation, there is a...
EFA calls on the EU to expand the ECDC mandate to cover chronic diseases
As a member of the EU4Health Civil Society Alliance (EU4Health CSA), EFA helped pen a letter to the Council of the European Union advocating for the expansion...
European Commission plans on personalised medicine, could also include allergy and asthma
How does the European Commission plan to advance research in personalised medicine in the coming years? And how do allergy and asthma, two of the most...
EFA General Meetings 2021
EFA warmly invites all Members to the online Extraordinary General Meeting and Annual General Meetings that will be held on the 27th and 28th of May 2021...
Ireland: Asthma Society of Ireland helps launch Asthma Education Inclusion project
The Asthma Society of Ireland, in collaboration with HSE Social Inclusion South East Community Healthcare and Pavee Point Traveller and Roma...
France: FFAAIR offers weekly exercises specially for respiratory patients
FFAAIR, in partnership with the association Calais Respire and the U.F.O.L.E.P, is offering two sessions per week of physical activities specially adapted...
Spain: FENAER launches 'Give yourself a break', the respiratory health podcast
In February FENAER launched‘Give yourself a break’; aseries of weekly podcasts covering different topics related to respiratory...
Serbia: Allery and Me launched a counselling platform
EFA’s Member from Serbia, “Allergy and Me”, in collaboration with companies as Eucerin Serbia, Allergoff, Talija Lab, GAAPP, Global Skin and Medis,...
Denmark: Asthma-Allergy offered exemption badges
EFA Member Asthma-Allergy Denmark offered to its members badges that signal who can be exempted from wearing a face mask.
The Danish Health and Medicine...
Denmark: Asthma-Allergy’s new allergy-labelled masks
EFA Member Asthma-Allergy Denmark has worked, in collaboration with the allergy label Asthma-Allergy Nordic, to approve hypoallergenic face masks.
Allergenic...
Italy: Respiriamo Insieme launched a campaign on severe asthma
The Italian association Respiamo Insieme, set up an online communication campaign to raise awareness about the differences between asthma and severe asthma.
Respiriamo...
First annual meeting of ImmUniverse
Through ImmUniverse, EFA is involved in research aiming to improve diagnostic and therapeutic options for patients living with immune-mediated inflammatory...
EFA held Meet & Greet the EU training
EFA’s 10th annual “Meet & Greet the EU training” was organised as 2 virtual half-day meetings on 10 and 17 February 2021. Named ‘The EU at...
EFA response to the review of the EU Regulation on Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases questionnaire
In December, EFA participated in the second stage of the European Commission Directorate General for Climate Action consultation to review the current...
EFA response to the European Health Data Space consultation
One of the current European Commission priorities is the digital transition, officially called “A Europe fit for the digital age: Empowering people with...