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29 Jun

OAFI-AECOSAR Sign a Collaboration Agreement with ASPE

On June 6, the International Osteoarthritis Foundation, together with AECOSAR, signed a collaboration agreement with ASPE, the Spanish Private Health Alliance. In the way of collaboration and creation of links with entities of different sectors that is carried out from AECOSAR-OAFI, and whose purpose is to create a common work network with the best partners […]

26 May

AECOSAR participates and receives the SORCOM award for the ARTRO 360 project

AECOSAR participated this past Sunday, May 22, in the II Solidarity Race for Patients with Rheumatic Diseases, organized by the Society of Rheumatology of the Community of Madrid (SORCOM). They were also awarded for the support of the ARTRO 360 project, an initiative of OAFI Foundation in which AECOSAR collaborates, consisting of a proposal for […]

28 Feb

Banco Farmacéutico, OAFI and AECOSAR join forces to work towards the eradication of pharmaceutical poverty in patients with osteoarthritis and/or osteoporosis

The Osteoarthritis Foundation International (OAFI), the Spanish Osteoporosis Association (AECOSAR) and the Banco Farmacéutico, together with the Observatorio de la Pobreza Farmacéutica, signed an agreement last January establishing a joint working framework to curb pharmaceutical poverty in patients with osteoarthritis and/or osteoporosis. OAFI is the world’s first and only non-profit foundation exclusively for people with […]

11 Oct

The Updated Agenda of The OAFI Congress 2021 is Here!

We present the updated Preliminary Agenda of the 5th International Congress for Osteoarthritis Patients, to be held on 14 and 15 October at the AXA Auditorium (L’illa Diagonal, Barcelona). In the agenda, you will find the schedule of the congress and all its conferences: two days completely dedicated to the health, well-being and improvement of […]

14 Sep

OAFI Foundation Will Be Part of The PNLAR 2020 Congress

OAFI Foundation will participate in the PANLAR (Panamerican League of Associations for Rheumathology) congress in a symposium organized jointly with OARSI (Osteoarthritis Research Society International) where different world-class specialists will delve into the pathology. In this way, the OAFI Foundation participates in one of the most important congresses in the world on joint health and […]

4 Mar

The First Patient Foundation With a TV & Radio Program Dedicated Exclusively to Patients

Since last September 2019, OAFI has become the first Patient Foundation with its own television & radio program . Every Monday from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the health journalist Ricardo Aparicio directs and presents a program dedicated exclusively to osteoarthritis patients. WHERE AND HOW TO LISTEN TO OAFI RADIO? You can watch the LIVE […]

11 Apr

OAFI explains the proposal for a new care management model for OA patients at the General patients Alliance conference

OAFI, International Foundation of Patients with Arthrosis, has participated in the 6th Patients’ Day of the General Alliance of Patients (AGP) at the round table “Giving voice to pathologies. Current situation, care demands and unmet needs” which was held today in Madrid. Dr. Josep Vergés, President and CEO of the OAFI, explained that osteoarthritis affects […]

29 Mar

Osteoarthritis international experts involved in the work of the OAFI Foundation

The OAFI Foundation welcomed Dr. Marc Hochberg, an internationally recognized expert in the field of osteoarthritis (OA). Dr. Hochberg is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. This meeting has allowed us to learn and […]

18 Dec

ARTRO 360: NEW MANAGEMENT MODEL TO ADVANCE IN THE TREATMENT OF OSTEOARTHRITIS BY OPTIMIZING RESOURCES

OAFI, together with the Medical and Scientific Societies, proposes to the health authorities a NEW CARE MODEL IN THE MANAGEMENT of the disease that puts the PATIENT in the center: ARTRO 360. Patients, represented by OAFI, lead this new model that brings together all those involved in the disease, to demand at all levels to […]

9 Feb

OAFI and the Spanish Society for Quality care (SECA – Sociedad Española de Calidad Asistencial) are collaborating to implement a care pathway for patients with osteoarthritis.

The International Osteoarthritis Foundation (OAFI) and the Spanish Society for Quality Care (SECA), whose mission is to promote and encourage the continuous improvement of Quality Care in the health sector, have signed a collaboration agreement to promote the prevention, treatment and improvement of the quality of life of people with osteoarthritis. Dr Josep Vergés, the […]

OAFI is the International Osteoarthritis Foundation, the first and only foundation aimed exclusively at people with osteoarthritis worldwide.

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