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World IBD Day 2013
This month on 19 May World IBD Day is marked in many countries worldwide.
Please check out the World IBD Day website to learn more about and support some of the activities that EFCCA and other other sister organisations from around the globe are organising to raise awareness and to highlight what it means to live with IBD.
World IBD Day website at www.worldibdday.org...
EFCCA and World IBD Day 2013: the video
Videoclip from our World IBD Day event at the European Parliament (16 May 2013)
Date of issue: 2013-05-16
EFCCA breaking news nr. 5/2011
DUBLIN - ECCO CONGRESS. EFCCA CONSOLIDATES COOPERATION WITH ECCO.
As every year EFCCA participated in the ECCO Congress held in Dublin from 24 to 26 February 2011. A boot and dissemination material were at disposal of the congress participants.
The ECCO Congress was attended by over 3000 delegates consisting mainly of doctors and other healthcare professionals and provided...
EFCCA Annual General Meeting 2014
Commissioner Borgh addressing EFCCA General Assembly
Commissioner Borgh from the European Commission´s Directorate for Health and Consumers welcomed delegates to the 24 General Assembly of EFCCA which took place in Graz (Austria) from 3-6 April 2014.
In his pre-recorded speech Commissioner Borgh acknowledged and applauded the work of EFCCA and showed his support to the...
EFCCA breaking news nr. 1/2011
WORLD IBD DAY 19 MAY 2011
Here we are again and happy 2011 to you all!
A new year just started and EFCCA is pleased to inform you all that the date for the second World IBD DAY has been finally agreed. It will be again May the 19th all over the world with a new entry association being part of the worldwide platform: New Zealand! EFCCA is willing to collect all the ideas...
EFCCA breaking news nr. 3/2011
EUROPEAN MEDICINE AGENCY NEW WEB SITE
Rod Mitchell, our former Chair, who is currently the IAPO alternate at the European Medicines Agency Patient & Consumer Working Party sent us this relevant news. Being EFCCA a IAPO member I am more than pleased to circulate it to you all.
Patient and associated organisations together with other interested parties may like to be reminded that the...
EFCCA breaking news nr. 4/2011
Adoption of the Code of Conduct removes the last barrier to the formal conclusion of the UNCRPD
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), which entered into force on 3 May 2008, is the first human rights Convention signed by the EU. All EU Member States have signed the UNCRPD and a majority has signed its Optional Protocol too. The next step,...
EFCCA breaking news nr. 7/2011
EFCCA IS GLAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE WORLD IBD DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED IN BRUSSELS ON THE 19TH OF MAY ! IT’’S THE FIRST TIME WE ALL HAVE THE CHANCE TO RAISE AWARENESS AND GIVE PEOPLE WITH IBD A LOUDER VOICE IN EUROPE!
A REPRESENTATIVE FROM EACH NATIONAL MEMBER IS KINDLY INVITED TO ATTEND AND HER/HIS PARTICIPATION WILL BE FULLY COVERED BY EFCCA.
A STREET...
EFCCA breaking news nr. 2/2011
WORLD IBD DAY WORK IN PROGRESS
As anticipated in the previous issue of our breaking news, EFCCA is collecting information on practices and initiatives on the World IBD Day planned by Member Associations. I'm particularly pleased to present you the first set of information coming from Crohn's and Colitis UK the brand-new working name of the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease (...
EFCCA breaking news nr.8 /2011
FEEDBACK FROM THE WORLD IBD DAY
Brussels, 19 May 2011
The sky is cloudy but weather forecasts are not very bad… fingers crossed.
9.45 AM – Marco Greco, Isabella Haaf and myself enter the Berlaymont building a little bit excited.
At 10.00 AM - Mrs Darmanin the head of the Cabinet of the Commissioner on Health and Consumers’ protection, Mr Dalli, is waiting for us.
It is the first...