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Shingles Awareness Week
Shingles Awareness Week is a global opportunity to encourage candid conversations about the debilitating complications of the disease that can rob people from enjoying precious life moments. The campaign theme this year is ‘press play on your moment, not the virus that causes shingles’. Save the date, and make sure to follow your preferred IFA social media channel.
Protecting Progress of Vaccination Throughout Life
April 24 is World Meningitis Day, and on this day, the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) together with the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) and Immunize Canada want to remind you that meningococcal disease is a health risk you should not take.
Working Together to Defeat Invasive Meningococcal Disease
April 24 is World Meningitis Day, and on this day, the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) together with the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) and Immunize Canada want to remind you that meningococcal disease is a health risk you should not take.
Flu and YOU… Your evaluation skills are needed! Please read!
You know how one side of your nose gets blocked up worse than the other when you have a bad cold? Well there IS a reason – or so I have just discovered. Did you know that we have a nasal cycle?
Inégalités en matière de soins chez les personnes âgées : pourquoi la vaccination tout au long de la vie est importante
Jane Barratt, Secrétaire générale, International Federation on Ageing (IFA) et Isabelle Deschamps, Responsable des Affaires Publiques Vaccins Monde, Sanofi Pasteur. D’ici...
Inequalities in Healthcare for Older Adults: Why lifetime immunization is important
By: Jane Barratt, General Secretary, International Federation on Ageing (IFA) and Isabelle Deschamps, Head of Global Vaccines Public Affairs, Sanofi Pasteur. By 2020, the...
UN IDOP Side Event: End Immunisation Inequality Toward Healthy Ageing
The 2019 United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UN IDOP) theme “the journey to age equality” focuses on pathways of coping with existing and preventing future old age...
The Importance of Rehabilitation for Healthy Ageing
IFA Guest Blogger: Kate Swaffer, 2018 Australian Global Leader, 100 Women Of Influence, and Chair & CEO of the Dementia Alliance International writes for the International...
Influenza Recommendations for Hajj
3 July 2019 - The Hajj is the yearly pilgrimage Muslims can make to Islam’s holiest city, Mecca in Saudi Arabia to engage in practices to deepen faith and increase a sense of...
Misconceptions About Living with a Chronic Lung Disease
IFA Guest Blogger: Ms Morgan Dixon A chronic lung disease diagnosis can be frightening, and the misconceptions about living with chronic lung disease can make that fear worse,...
Initiatives to Increasing Immunisation Rates in Australia
Submitted by: The Australian College of Nursing Australia has a world class, federally funded public health system. The importance of herd immunity and the public health benefits...
In conversation with the Rector of the Hacettepe University, Prof A. Haluk ÖZEN
Hacettepe University focuses on preventative healthcare policies and projects including the Vaccine Institute when considering the ageing population. Representatives:...
IFA acknowledges support from GSK and Sanofi Pasteur for Vaccines4Life through unrestricted educational grants and is proud to be part of the Vaccines Safety Net (VSN) Database.
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