- Subscribe to our free webinars to increase national patient capacity
- The time for EFA’s yearly capacity building training has arrived! Do you have what it takes to be advocate for the patient needs but you are missing impact? Do you feel you can improve this or t ...
- First studies from the CURE project presented in Georgia
- Many asthma patients have access to a better life thanks to a series of treatments that allow them to keep their disease under control, but their dream to get rid of asthma is not yet there. Despite t ...
- @EFA_Patients at the European Respiratory Society Congress
- The European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress took place this year in Paris from the 15-19 September, right after the EADV Congress. The ERS Congress is the biggest event worldwide in the respirator ...
- EFA and EAACI sign memorandum of understanding
- EFA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), a longstanding partner of EFA. This memorandum of understanding will lay the groundwo ...
- Respiratory physiotherapy videos now in Portuguese
- EFA Spanish Member FENAER has launched a website to support patients with pulmonary rehabilitation online and for free. The website can be opened in all devices and offers several videos, 3 minutes lo ...
- Swedish patients launch an online recipe bank
- EFA Member the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association has launched the recipe bank, Receptbanken, where people can search for individual ingredients that they want to exclude or include. The purpose o ...
- The new AFPRAL magazine is published
- EFA Member the French Association for Allergy Prevention is pleased to announce the launch of the new Allergy magazine, Le Mag. The whole AFPRAL team has conceived it as a communication and informatio ...
- 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 ...
- AEPNAA Summer Camp 2018 for children with food and latex allergies
- From June the 23rd to July the 1st , AEPNAA organised their annual Summer Camp, aiming towards children with food and latex allergies. During this week, children between 6 and 16 years ...
- How to use your inhaler?
- EFA Member the Spanish Foundation of Allergic and Airways Diseases Patients’ Association (FENAER), launched in May a playful explanatory video for children to learn to use their inhaler properly. It i ...
- Italian patients celebrate the Food Allergy Awareness Week
- EFA Member Food Allergy Italia participated in the Food Allergy Awareness Week celebrated in May. Patient associations mobilise people online from the 13th to the 19th of May to show ...
- We welcomed a new Member and a new Board Member
- On April 16-17, we celebrated our Annual General Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, were EFA Members approved our annual 2017 report, accounts, budget and 2018 workplan. We exchanged on members’ best practi ...
- The Swiss Pulmonary League launches 11 learning video clips for children with asthma in German, French and Italian
- EFA Member, the Swiss Pulmonary League, has launched eleven learning video clips to help children with asthma manage better their condition. It complements traditional education and helps affected chi ...
- Online chat launched for allergy and asthma patients in Sweden
- EFA's Member, the Asthma and Allergy Association of Sweden, has a web service called AllergiSmart, targeting people who have or are close to someone with asthma, allergy or other type of hypersensitiv ...
- First European Alpha-1 Awareness Day
- On the 25th of April, EFA’s Roberta Savli took part in an EU Roundtable on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (a genetic disorder that can cause serious lung or liver disease, including COPD), marking the ...
- Campaign on travelling with allergies in the UK
- This year the World Allergy Week took place from the 23d of April to the 29th of April, with many patient initiatives to raise awareness about allergies. EFA Member Allergy UK focused on the topic o ...
- Asthma Society of Ireland phone line helped 70% of those under 50 to avoid missing school or work as a result of their asthma
- EFA Member the Asthma Society of Ireland FREE Adviceline service has showed extensive positive impacts for service users. The recent partnership research showed that 70% of service users aged 50 years ...
- Sweden is closer to ban smoking outdoors, as asked by patients
- It is well recognized today that tobacco smoking increases the risk of developing diseases like respiratory tract infections, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). But law has been ...
- 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 ...
- UK patients not getting their basic asthma care
- EFA member Asthma UK published in February their biggest Annual Asthma survey up to date: 7,000 patients responded on their daily difficulties because of asthma. The survey included this year new ques ...