WONCA News

July, 2019

On October 27, 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) Conference in Astana, approved a declaration to strengthen primary health care. It acknowledges the importance of primary health care, as a core function in health systems, to attain universal health coverage. This declaration is a welcome support for health reforms around the world particularly now it has been endorsed by the World Health Assembly.

July, 2019

Scholarships are now available to help offset the cost of attendance for the 16th WONCA World Rural Health Conference Oct. 12-15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

July, 2019

When Anna Stavdal stood for election as WONCA President-elect, in Seoul, she focused on the importance of adapting the core values of family medicine to current trends. Here she reflects on this issue, overmedicalisation and a recent BMJ article.

July, 2019

我于六月首次以WONCA主席身分到访非洲，出席于乌干达坎帕拉举行的非洲区域会议，来自32个不同国家的代表分享了发展家庭医学的经验与历程，令这次的非洲之旅获益良多。

July, 2019

J’ai bien apprécié ma première visite officielle en Afrique à la Conférence africaine de WONCA à Kampala en Ouganda. Des délégués de 32 pays étaient venus partager leur enthousiasme et leurs expériences concernant le développement de la médecine familiale à travers le continent et au-delà. Les soins de santé primaire centrés sur l’individu étaient au cœur de la conférence.

July, 2019

WONCA 2020 Abu Dhabi recently launched its call for symposia and workshop abstracts and the committees have been hard at work promoting and developing content for the conference. In a bid to encourage greater attendance, WONCA 2020 Abu Dhabi joined the recently-concluded WONCA Europe

July, 2019

Shelly B Rodrigues, Deputy Executive Vice President, California Academy of Family Physicians and Chris Larrison, Principal, Healthcare Performance Consulting Inc, report on workshops at the recent WONCA Asia Pacific region conference in Kyoto on improving care of patients with depression and anxiety.

July, 2019

Klaus B von Pressentin reports on his attendance as the Montegut Scholar, at the WONCA Africa 2019 conference, in Kampala, Uganda, from June 4-8, 2019. Klaus is from Mossel Bay sub-district, South Africa. The Montegut Global Scholars Program is funded by the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F).

July, 2019

The WONCA Working Party on Women and Family medicine (WWPWFM) is active in the WONCA Africa region and has participated and organized preconference meetings, and workshops since 2009. WWPWFM Africa region also provide leadership and mentorship in the region through her members who are on the executive board of the WONCA Africa Region.

July, 2019

WONCA Europe announces its new Executive board elected in Bratislava in June.