by EPHA | May 21, 2021 | Universal Access and Affordable Medicines | Latest Developments
“When my son was diagnosed with cancer, he was treated with old, off-label drugs. The same happened two years later when he relapsed two years later, despite a poor prognosis. Not a single experimental drug was on trial to give us hope. We have to change this...
by EPHA | Dec 14, 2020 | Children and Youth, Health Inequalities
The first months and years of life lay the foundations for children’s physical, social and emotional development. Eurochild and the International Step by Step Association, in partnership with the European Public Health Alliance and the Roma Education Fund are...
by EPHA | Oct 5, 2020 | #EU4Health, COVID-19, Europe and Health
The European Public Health Alliance understands that the European Commission’s EU4health proposal is being drastically cut back by EU Member States, in the ongoing negotiations between EU national governments in the Council of the EU. This risks much less EU...
by EPHA | Jul 22, 2020 | EU Budget, Health Inequalities
As a member of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, EPHA today joined calls on the European Parliament to ensure adequate allocation in the EU Budget to fight against child poverty. With 1 in 4 children in the EU already growing up at risk of poverty and social...
by EPHA | Jul 22, 2020 | #EU4Health, COVID-19, EU Budget
The new EU4Health programme, announced in May this year as part of the European Commission’s COVID-19 recovery plan, with proposals to invest in prevention, crisis preparedness, the procurement of vital medicines and equipment to improve health systems and Europeans’...