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Last December 2nd, 2022, the Health Innovation Thematic Group organized its 1st International Experts Forum & Policy Dialogue Workshop online called “Personalised medicine approaches to Active and Healthy Living and Ageing”. “From care to prevention, to happy living” has been the topic around which experts from all over the world has exchanged views, experiences and have debated to trace the trends in R&I, providing policymakers with evidence.
At the beginning of November 2022, Active Citizenship Network was selected as a member of the EMA stakeholder database. In particular, this achievement was one of the main outputs of our 2022 EU commitment on advanced therapies. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) collaborates with many patients, consumers, and their organizations on aspects such as information on medicines, consultation on product-specific issues, and participation in workshops and meetings.
The paper on Prioritising Adult Immunisation Policy, published by Vaccines Europe on 6th December 2022 will be instrumental in striving the discussion at the EU and national levels on the value of adult immunisation and will support our advocacy towards creating a supportive environment for adult immunisation programmes. To achieve this Vaccines Europe calls for 4 different actions to protect adults against Vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD)s:
Vaccines Europe published its first-ever Vaccines Europe Pipeline Review 2022 of its 15 member companies, with 100 vaccine candidates as of July 2022. The review shows a promising pipeline aimed at tackling the challenges of today and tomorrow, such as the burden of respiratory tract infections, AMR, the aging of the population, climate change, and zoonotic infections, through leveraging a broad array of new technology platforms. This pipeline is a profound testimony of the commitment of the vaccine industry to ensuring we all benefit from the significant value of vaccination to our society. To download the document, click here.
As part of the initiative to counter vaccine misinformation in the program's "EU4Health program 2021-2027 - a vision for a healthier European Union", the European Commission has launched a communication campaign on the benefits of vaccination against COVID, seasonal influenza, and HPV across the lifespan, called #UnitedInProtection. For more information, see the fact sheet.
Vaccine confidence among the public and healthcare professionals is high across most populations, with some exceptions and caveats. Between 2018 and 2020, there was a large increase in public perception towards vaccines across the EU, particularly towards the seasonal influenza vaccine. Many of these 2020 gains have since been reversed. Perceptions towards the importance, safety, and effectiveness of vaccines have declined across the EU between 2020 and 2022. Across the EU, the view that vaccines are safe remains higher than 2018 levels. Yet, EU-wide changes in public perceptions towards the importance and safety of vaccines shows that strong vaccine-dependence and variability in vaccine confidence exist between countries and within sociodemographic characteristics.
The low adult vaccination coverage in Europe and the barriers experienced during the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination strategies in almost all European countries underline the need for a thorough reflection on adult immunization programs in Europe. Therefore, the team of Prof. Paolo Bonanni – Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence (Italy) and Prof. Pierre Van Damme, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp (Belgium) joined forces to create an “Adult immunization board (AIB)” based on years of experience with the Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board (VHPB, created in 1992) and the HPV Prevention And Control board (HPV Board, created in 2015). In this contest, Active Citizenship Network has become an independent advisor to the Adult Immunization Board (AIB).
After the pandemic, we should have understood that everyone's health is interconnected: this is the vision that inspired the Civic Charter on Global Health on which Cittadinanzattiva worked throughout 2022, to promote awareness among citizens and institutions and identify concrete actions to protect - as a fundamental human right - the global health.
Founded on three pillars (health, environment and social justice), the Charter proclaims 13 rights that, taken together, aim to guarantee every person in the interest of the individual and the community "global health”, understood as state of bio-psycho-social well-being interconnected with biological, economic, and social, political, cultural and environmental, and commercial determinants.
In line with its long-lasting commitment on the topic, Active Citizenship Network has recently joined the AMR Patient Group. Led by Health First Europe, in which since many years the ACN Director is Member of the Executive Committee, the AMR Patient Group is open to working with patient groups across Europe to address the serious public health threat posed by Antimicrobial Resistance. To know more, click here.
Active Citizenship Network is glad to announce that the Italian MEP Fabio Massimo Castaldo has officially joined the other institutional supporters of the Interest Group on Patients’ Rights and Cross-Border Healthcare - promoted by Active Citizenship Network in 2015 and currently at its second turn (2019-2024) with its essential role in putting the patients’ perspective at the centre within the EU health policy agenda - and the Inter-institutional Group “SDGs for well-being and consumers’ protection”, launched in February 2021. Fabio Massimo Castaldo was first elected to the European Parliament in 2014, where he was subsequently appointed Vice-President in 2017, as the youngest Vice-President in the history of the European Parliament.
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