- Swedish Heart & Lung Association Congress
- By the end of May, EFA member Riksförbundet HjärtLung held its annual congress. Congratulations to President Inger Ros for her re-election!
- aha! Swiss Allergy Center: Annual Report 2018
- EFA Member, aha! Swiss Allergy Center has published its annual report 2018. The digital version can be found here.
- FENAER launches its first Satellite Congress
- EFA Spanish Member Federación Española de Asociaciones de pacientes alérgicos y con Enfermedades Respiratorias (FENAER) held its first online congress on the 8th of June. The Satellite event was addre ...
- New Allergy & Asthma Foundation campaign focuses on hay fever in Denmark
- In Denmark, up to one million people live with pollen allergy. Despite most of them are experiencing symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing and red eyes, unfortunately, many do not seek professional he ...
- 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.
- Increasing reporting of food allergen management problems in the Netherlands
- EFA Member, Dutch Food Allergy Foundation, has started a campaign encouraging patients with food allergies and intolerances to report bad experiences within public establishments to the National Repor ...
- New outdoor air quality factsheet by Allergy UK
- EFA Member, Allergy UK, has published an outdoor air quality factsheet. The quick guide provides all necessary information on how outdoor air quality links to allergy, where air pollution comes from a ...
- FENAER asks for more nurses at schools to care for asthma
- EFA Member, FENAER, has held a special meeting with the president of the Spanish nurses and physiotherapists trade union to promote the presence of nurses at school. In addition, FENAER carried out mu ...
- What it is like to live with food allergies in Italy
- EFA Member, Foodallergy Italia, has conducted many activities around the EFA FOOD DETECTives project and the social media campaign #DetectiveFood. The project aims at collecting good and bad examples ...
- World Asthma Day in Italy
- EFA Member, Federasma e Allergie Onlus Italia, attended a press conference on new initiatives for Asthma in the Gemelli Hospital, affiliated with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in Rome. The ...
- Allergy UK: Allergy Awareness Week
- On April 29th, EFA Member Allergy UK kicks off its Allergy Awareness Week, focusing on “Air Quality – the allergens around us”. The patient organisation aims to raise awareness about the impacts of po ...
- 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 ...
- NAAF launches allergy and asthma podcast
- EFA Member Atma- og Allergiforbundet (NAAF) has initiated a podcast series to talk about allergies and asthma. Podcasts are emissions that can be directly listened live by subscribers or downloaded as ...
- Stichting Voedselallergie: Broadcast on food safety in hospitals
- A survey co-organised by EFA Member Stichting Voedselallergie (Dutch Food Allergies Foundation) shows that hospitals are not always taking care of food allergies of their patients. EFA Board memb ...
- Allergia-, Iho- ja astmaliitto celebrates 50th anniversary
- EFA Member Allergia-, Iho- ja astmaliitto (Finnish Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation) celebrates this year its 50th anniversary and has therefore developed an interactive website showing the hi ...
- Save the Date: FENAER’s first online congress for respiratory patients
- EFA Spanish Member Federacion Española de Asociaciones de pacientes alergicos y con Enfermedades Respiratorias (FENAER) will hold its first online Congress next 8th of June. The Satellite event for pe ...
- EPF: EuropeforPatients campaign
- The European Patients Forum (EPF), of which EFA is a long-standing member, has launched a campaign ahead of the EU elections called ‘europeforpatients’. EPF and their Members are calling on political ...
- Asthma UK: Stop unfair asthma prescription charges
- EFA Member Asthma UK has launched a petition to stop unfair asthma prescription charges. By now, some 55,000 people have already signed and supported the initiative! Click here if you want to suppor ...
- Asthma Allergy Denmark: Hay-fever and allergy high-school 2019
- EFA Member Astma Allergi Denmark organises a Hay-fever and Allergy High School. During the event, attendees can ask questions and get advice from Astma-Allergy Denmark. The goal of the ‘High School’ i ...
- Quaterly Summary from EFA Working Groups
- In December 2018 and January 2019 we organised follow-up calls with EFA Working Groups to discuss hot topics and share national experiences important for allergy and airways diseases patients. Food ...