Alain Cornet, Author at Lupus Europe

Open letter – Make health a priority – Please support!

As discussed during its Annual General Meeting last month, the European Patients’ Forum is deeply concerned with the very uncertain future of European health collaboration and of the Health Programme post-2020. The five scenarios proposed by the European Commission Mr. Junker in April show that health is not a priority for the European Union. To […]

Lots of activity for World Lupus Day

And lots of activity ties in well with “Kick Lupus” of course 😉 For more information on Kick Lupus please read here. There have been so many initiatives for World Lupus Day it’s difficult to name them all but here are a few that deserve to be highlighted. The World Lupus Federation, of which LUPUS […]

It’s World Lupus Day!

May 10th is World Lupus Day What is lupus? Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack the body’s connective tissue and organs. Parts of the body affected can include the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood and skin. Up to 500,000 people in Europe have lupus. 90% of people […]

Building up to World Lupus Day

10th of May is #WorldLupusDay and for that occasion #LUPUSEUROPE in cooperation with #LUPUSUK has created a campaign for every day in the month of May. Please feel free to share with everybody you know! In the build up to World Lupus Day, look out for our info-messages on Facebook and Twitter. Here are the first two.

European Patients’ Forum AGM

From April 10th-11th EPF held its annual AGM. Katharine Wheeler attended on behalf of LUPUS EUROPE. Naturally, in the year of EPF’s campaign on Access to Healthcare, there was a strong focus on the #Access2030 campaign and putting healthcare firmly back on every politician’s agenda. A noteworthy result of EPF’s survey on Access to healthcare is […]

#Access2030 petition

As part of the EPF #Access2030 campaign a petition has been created to ensure that decision-makers are aware of how important people feel healthcare is and that we want it to remain very firmly on the agenda. To read more about the petition and to sign, please click here.

CNN highlights Lupus

CNN has highlighted lupus and celebrities who have lupus. You can read the article here.

Andreas’ final story

Since his amazing feat Andreas has been busy recovering and getting back to normal life, but he hasn’t forgotten about his lupus supporters and has been working on his final article, telling us all about his fantastic achievement. Lupus New York Marathon Finisher – 06.11.2016 For Lupus Warriors, Lupus Heros, Lupus Scientists, Lupus Family, Lupus Friends, […]

OECD forum on the “Future of Health”

On Jan 20th, in Paris, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a Forum on the Future of Health, with the tag line of “People at the Center”. The Organization provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international […]

ERN meeting, Vilnius

Kirsten represents LUPUS EUROPE at ERN meeting in Vilnius For tweets and pictures from the event, visit LUPUS EUROPE’s twitter page. From our recent newsflash: On March 9th EU President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, opened the third meeting and Kick-off of the European Reference Networks (ERNs) taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania. Please see the short […]