Boosting Health Literacy for Adolescents with Asthma - EFA project
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood although symptoms and disease can cease before adulthood with adequate treatment. Today, 30 million...
Relieve the burden of allergies - EFA project
Allergology is not recognised as a medical specialisation in most European countries and respiratory allergies are often treated at primary care services....
EARIP - EU funded project
Europe is one of the most affected regions by asthma prevalence in adults. The European Asthma Research and Innovation Partnership (EARIP) aims to reduce...
AirPROM - EU funded project
Our lungs may look similar, but they are not exactly the same. They differ on shape, capacity and properties just like our eyes do not have the same colour....
EFA Capacity Building Project (ongoing)
EFA consists of 38 national patient associations from across Europe, each organistaion varies in their disease focus, capacity and resources. Through capacity...
Clinical trials for asthma, allergy and COPD
Clinical trials are research conducted in humans to prove the effects of one or more investigational medicinal products. All investigational medicinal...
Medical devices for allergy and respiratory diseases
Medical devices can increase life expectancy and quality of life. They are also fundamental for chronic disease patients as they help them manage their...
Press Release: Beware of Allergy campaign
FOOD ALLERGY: a burden carried by more than 17 million of Europeans
In Europe, 1 out of every 20 children has one or more food allergies
In the...
Press Release: International Women's Day
Take action to decrease the burden of asthma in women
Brussels, 8 March 2015, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – In the European Union women live on average...
Chronic diseases in Europe (February 2015)
February has been an enriching month in the fight against chronic diseases prevalence and burden in Europe: two main events have been organised in The...
EFA Members News (February 2015)
Patient-led initiatives not only bring meaningful results for patients, but also broader support. In February, EFA Dutch Member Longfonds was awarded with...
EU Projects update (February 2015)
EFA’s role in EU funded research projects is to provide the patients persepective to the research process and to ensure that patietns are updated on...
New air quality guidelines (February 2015)
Air quality is an increasingly worrying topic both at EU and global level. The World Health Organisation prepares a resolution that takes stock of air...
EU Policy update (February 2015)
In February the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) issued a position on patients’ discrimination across Europe and launched a consultation on cross-border...
EFA in Events (February 2015)
February was full of inspiring events, like a field visit to Finland to see how e-health supporting care is implemented and the courageous patients that...
EFA Networking Day 2015
Starting in 2011, EFA began to integrate an optional event, called the Networking Day following the AGM, to provide EFA members with the opportunity to...
EFA Annual General Meeting 2015
Each year the EFA organizes an Annual General Meeting in a city corresponding to an EFA member organisation, who volunteers to assist in hosting the event.
AGM...
Hotel Monte Málaga
EFA Projects update (January 2015)
Our contribution on allergy action at national level was presented to the Italian Ministry of Health by a delegation formed by patients, doctors, and researchers...
MyAirCoach update
MyAirCoach kick-off meeting: the quest for an asthma and COPD self-management tool
In January, the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, the project...