Regional News

August, 2019

In November, the IX EURIPA Forum will take place in the beautiful city of Ponta Delgada, located in the Atlantic island of São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.

August, 2019

The first consultation meeting of the Primary Health Care Measurement and Improvement Initiative of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region was held in Cairo WHO EMRO regional office. It was great to see WONCA EMR being given equal billing on this initiative with WHO EMRO, UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which is funding this initiative).

August, 2019

The 88th European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN) meeting was held in Tampere, Finland from 9-12 May 2019. The topic of the meeting was "Research on Multimorbidity in Primary Care".

August, 2019

You are invited to submit abstracts and proposals for oral and poster presentations and for workshops that are in keeping with the themes of this, the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2020, which is coming to Auckland, New Zealand in April 2020.

July, 2019

The Human Side of Medicine : Learning what it's like to be a patient and what it's like to be a physician

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

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

June, 2019

WONCA's Asia Pacific region conference comes to Auckland, New Zealand in 2020 from 23-26 April. Submissions for abstracts and early bird registration are now open.

May, 2019

WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF, which brings together twenty countries including Spain and Portugal, held its sixth Congress of Family and Community Medicine of Ibero-America, in Tijuana, in May. More than 1,500 family doctors and health professionals from all areas of Ibero-America met in Tijuana, Mexico.

May, 2019

​WONCA APR 2019 was held from May 15-18, 2019 at Kyoto International Conference Center, hosted by the Japan Primary Care Association. Total number of participants was 1643, from 46 countries, from all over the world.