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IAPO Calls on WHO Member States to take Urgent Action to Protect Patients from Counterfeit Medical Products

Geneva, Switzerland, 28 May 2012 – On Friday 25 May 2012, The International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO) urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to take urgent action to protect patients from the threat of counterfeit medical products. This request was central to an intervention made by Jo Groves, IAPO CEO, on item 13.13 Substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products at the Sixty-Fifth Session of the WHO World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The following is taken from…

IAPO Urges WHO Member States to put Patients at the Centre of Healthcare Systems

Geneva, Switzerland, 29 May 2012 – On Saturday 26 May 2012, the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO) urged World Health Organization (WHO) Member States to put patients at the centre of healthcare systems. This request was central to an intervention made by Jo Groves, IAPO CEO, on health system strengthening at the sixty-fifth session of the WHO World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The following is taken from IAPO’s statement: “Health systems in all…