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WHO Guidelines on transforming and scaling up health
professionals education
The WHO Guidelines on transforming and scaling up health
professionals education will be published in September 2012.
The WHO HRH team working on these guidelines is interested
in sharing the findings of this work in the Global Pharmacy
Workforce Report as well as during the FIP congress.
WHO Guidelines for natural products
Further to the participation of Dr Ito at the WHO consultation
on conservation of medicinal plants held in Toyama, Japan on
October 2011, FIP was offered the opportunity to be one of
the coauthors of the revised version of the Guidelines on the
Conservation of Medicinal Pants together with WHO, IUCn,
WWF, and TRAFFIC. These Guidelines will be published soon.
Other meetings
On World Health Day 2011, FIP was invited by Dr Hiroki nakatani
(Assistant DirectorGeneral HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and
neglected Tropical Disease) to address the WHO High Level
Panel on Antimicrobial resistance to affirm the commitment
of the pharmacy profession and FIP to improve use of medicines
and antibiotics through the work of pharmacists globally.
FIP was represented at the Third Partners Meeting on Better
Medicines for Children (november 2011). This initiative was
developed further to a WHA resolution adopted in 2007. It aims
to promote the development and access to medicines suitable
for children.
During this meeting, FIP presented its Reference Paper on the
effective utilization of pharmacists in improving maternal, new
born and child health (adopted in Hyderabad, 2011), with a focus
on child health.
WHO and FIP Centennial
WHO has suggested to link the next meeting of the Expert
Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations
to the FIP Centennial.
There will be two joint open sessions with WHO at the FIP
Centennial:
a two-day conference on the International World of
pharmacopoeias
Global Pharmacy Workforce Report 2012
Initiatives with the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)
Non-Communicable Diseases Campaign
IIn May 2011 the World Health Professions Alliance launged
the nonCommunicable Diseases (nCDs) Campaign that was
presented at the Un Summit on nCDs the following September.
Press releases:
Health Improvement Card
Media release
FIP took part in the preparation of this campaign together with
the other partners of the WHPA.
This campaign is structured around a card(the WHPA Health
Improvement Card), which has been designed to be
a facilitator of dialogue between healthcare professionals
and patients on non Communicable Diseases (nCDs), so that
patients are encouraged adopt healthy lifestyles
a record of personal health goals, enabling the tracking of
progress over time