Third year of scent sensitivity campaign in Finland
EFA Member the Finnish Allergy and Asthma Federation organized its scent sensitivity campaign for the third time last November attracting media attention...
First congress of allergy respiratory patients in Spain
On the occasion of World COPD Day EFA Spanish Member FENAER, organized the First Congress of Allergy and Respiratory Patients in Madrid. During the event,...
UK Patients call for Adrenaline Auto-Injectors to be held in all schools
EFA Members Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK have been advocating together with the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI), the ...
New asthma app launched in Latvia
PulmoGPS in collaboration with Wrong Digital and Faculty of Medicine of University of Latvia have developed an inhaler reminder application for asthmatics...
Meeting Portuguese COPD patients
Two years after the first EFA Capacity Building meeting, the EFA team came back to Portugal to witness the progress achieved by our member RESPIRA and...
Towards a tobacco-free Slovenia
As Members of the European Network of Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP), we travelled to Ljubljana in October to attend their capacity building session....
Call to action on organ donation launched by PHA
EFA is happy to partner in the Pulmonary Hypertension Europe’s call to action on organ donation and transplantation, launched at the European Parliament....
EFA highlights patient involvement in Systems Medicine
EFA’s Susanna Palkonen spoke at the very first conference of the European Association of System’s Medicine about our experience in participating in...
EFA re-elected for HEAL Executive Committee
The Health and Environment alliance (HEAL) Annual General Assembly was held on the 20th of October to take stock of the year and plan for 2017. The AGA...
EFA brings the patient perspective to QED - mobile health conference
Ageing population is nowadays one of the main European challenges which will bring important budget pressures, especially on the healthcare system. Mobile...
Launch of smart citizen air quality meter for Belgium
On 18th October 2016 Citizens Action Brussels organised a round table discussion about the measurement of air quality in several Belgian cities.
During...
HTA: what’s next for European cooperation?
The European Commission and EunetHTA organised a forum on Health Technology Assessment on the 21st of October 2016, in Brussels.
During the Forum,...
myAirCoach was presented at EASYM conference
Involving patients in research is essential to maximize the impact of research studies results. This is even truer if the research is aimed at developing...
eTRIKS Play Decide
Data collected during research study contain important information about diseases and treatments and their impacts on patients’ life and therefore must...
EFA Meet and greet the EU– Apply now!
As every year as part of our capacity building project, EFA is organising the “EFA Meet and Greet the EU Institutional Training”, which this year fits...
New film to encourage carrying anaphylaxis medication
Following a youth survey which identified that many teenagers and young adults were not carrying their emergency medication for anaphylaxis – UK Charity...
First French national respiratory days
EFA Member FFAAIR organized for the first time the National Respiratory Days in the Chateau Monchat in Lyon, France.
The organisation prepared two days...
National conference for indoor air quality in Norway
The Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association has hosted the national conference for indoor air quality, Thursday, 27th of October.
This year’s main...
Our Málaga-London Declaration is translated into 19 languages
Our Stop Asthma campaign, built around the Malaga-London Declaration on Asthma Research Investment, was officially launched at the ERS Congress 2016 in...
Patients are paramount at medical congresses
We were among the more than 20.000 participants that traveled to London from the 3rd till the 7th of September for the European Society Respiratory Congress....