WONCA News

August, 2018

The WONCA South Asia region conference will be held from November 22-24, 2019, in Lahore, Karachi, Pakistan. The theme is "Primary Care- complete health care". The conference is hosted by the Pakistan Society of Family Physicians.

August, 2018

This is the first announcement in WONCA News about the WONCA Asia Pacific region conference coming in 2019 to Kyoto, Japan. The conference will be held from May 15-18, 2019

August, 2018

We continue to recruit and welcome new members from all WONCA regions who wish to work together to strengthen the discipline of Family Medicine with a special interest on Workers Health. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Alma Declaration, Family Doctors must emphasize our passion for Primary Care,

August, 2018

As of 24 April 2018, there are 113 members in the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Global Point-of- Care Testing (POCT), comprising 11 Executive Members and 102 General Members; these members represent 44 different countries and all seven WONCA regions.

July, 2018

We all need to thank each other this month – which is the start of a new financial and academic year for some, a well-earned holiday period for others, and a really really busy time for the WONCA leadership and Secretariat as we run towards the Seoul conference and the WHO meeting in Astana.

July, 2018

Todos y todas debemos darnos las gracias mutuamente este mes de agosto, el mes en el que comienza un nuevo año fiscal y, para algunos y algunas, un nuevo año académico. Agosto también es el inicio de un periodo de vacaciones muy merecidas para otros colegas, y un verdadero (muy verdadero) comienzo de periodo ajetreado por parte de los directivos de WONCA y su secretariado mientras nos acercamos al Congreso de Seúl y al encuentro de la Organización Mundial de la Salud en Astana.

July, 2018

What a busy few weeks!! Since last I wrote I’ve been in Geneva, for World Health Assembly, then on to Krakow for the WONCA Europe conference and then to Warsaw for a meeting of the WONCA Executive. After that it was off to Toronto, to undertake a Program Accreditation visit at University of Toronto, before heading away for some much-needed leave time.

July, 2018

For the past two years I have held the position as WONCA Young Doctors’ representative on WONCA World Executive, an opportunity that has proven to be a very inspiring, fulfilling and rewarding experience. Thanks to the possibility of enabling WONCA World Executive working closely with the seven Young Doctors’ Movements (YDMs), we managed to develop new projects and to strengthen the YDMs foundations for future activities in the organisation.

July, 2018

Find out who the plenary speakers are for WONCA Seoul...

July, 2018

I hope all WONCA members reading this will know that in July there was a very short period when the final draft of the “Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care: From Alma-Ata towards Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals” allowed people to comment on this version. in this policy bite the president and Vivi Martinez-Bianchi consider making a global declaration – how to influence and advocate?