The global session entitled  ‘Accelerating AMR Action Through Antimicrobial Stewardship:  Are pharmacists the protagonists in the fight against antibiotic resistance?’ takes a debate format with 2 teams of three, protagonists and antagonists, speaking to a case study or personal experience to highlight good (protagonist) or bad (antagonist) practice that reflects the reality of the challenges faced by pharmacy in tackling AMR, with a particular focus on low to middle income countries

Moderators:
- Sabiha Essack
- Manjiri Gharat

Welcome and Objectives:
- Introducing FIP AMR Commission and goals of GRIP partnership; overview of 2020 -2021 roadmap progress
Panel Discussion:
- ‘Are pharmacists the protagonists in the fight against antibiotic resistance?’
Using case studies to highlight best practice, as well as bad practice, to reflect the reality of the challenges faced by pharmacy in tackling AMR, with a particular focus in low to middle income countries

Regional Highlights:
- Highlights of the regional ideas that delivered most change/progress towards the AMR roadmap developed in our FIP Virtual 2020 events

Next steps and close:
- Next steps and role of the AMR Commission; renewed commitment to AMR going forward

At this event on World AIDS day, we will explore the different roles pharmacists can have in the prevention and screening of HIV infections, as well as in providing care and support to people living with HIV, namely through medication management. Other roles for pharmacists include HIV prevention through dispensing and providing support to preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), HIV testing and harm reduction strategies for IV drugs users.

The World Health Organization estimates that around 38 million people live with HIV globally. Although there is still no cure for HIV, with the advancement of therapies and increasing access to effective HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, including for opportunistic infections, HIV infection has become a manageable chronic health condition, enabling people living with HIV to lead long and healthy lives.

Learning objectives:
1. Describe the burden and characteristics of HIV globally.
2. Understand the possibilities of involvement of pharmacists in the clinical care of people living with HIV.
3. Describe the role of pharmacists in PrEP-related services.

Moderator:
- Victoria Garcia Cardenas, FIP Pharmacy Practice Research SIG, Chair Senior Lecturer University of Technology Sydney, Australia / Spain

Panelists:
- Sham Moodley, FIP CPS Exco Member, Pharmacist Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa/Independent Community Pharmacy Assoc (ICPA), South Africa
- Nelli Barrière, Project Manager, HIV Programmes and Advocacy International AIDS Society, Switzerland
- Pilar Taberner Bonastre, Hospital pharmacist, Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida Spain
- Katrina F. Ortblad, Assistant Professor Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States of America
- Tessa Oraro-Lawrence, Project Manager, HIV Programmes and Advocacy International AIDS Society, Switzerland

Para abogar por una implementación más amplia y armonizada de bioexenciones basadas en el sistema de clasificación biofarmacéutica (BCS) en los países de América Latina, la FIP está apoyando a los líderes regionales en la sensibilización sobre esta vía reguladora basada en la ciencia diseñada para acelerar la aprobación del mercado de productos farmacéuticos genéricos seguros y eficaces. La segunda parte de esta serie de seminarios web diseñados específicamente para la región de América Latina destaca ejemplos de vías de aprobación regulatoria de bioexenciones basadas en BCS que se implementan actualmente en países seleccionados de América Latina. Los expertos abordarán la base legislativa de las regulaciones de bioexenciones y discutirán las oportunidades de armonización dentro de la región.

Este webinar tiene los objetivos:

• Diferenciar entre la bioequivalencia in vivo y las estrategias reguladoras de bioexención basadas en BCS para la aprobación de medicamentos genéricos.
• Comprender las implicaciones para la salud pública de la vía reguladora de la bioexención basada en BCS.
• Delinear oportunidades y desafíos para la implementación de un proceso armonizado de aprobación regulatoria de bioexenciones dentro de la región de América Latina.
• Delinear las contribuciones de solubilidad, permeabilidad y disolución para aplicaciones de bioexención basadas en BCS.

Moderadora:
-Talita Ferreira, Coordinadora de Proyectos de bioexención en Latinoamérica FIP

Panelistas:
-Alfredo García Arieta, Jefe del Servicio de Farmacocinética y Medicamentos Genéricos AEMPS
-Andrés Figueroa Campos, Gerente SD Registro Sanitario de Productos Farmacéuticos Bioequivalentes
ANAMED ISPch–Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria de Chile
-Jorge Iliou, Dirección NVVS de Paraguay
-Alexis Aceituno,Jefe SD Registro Sanitario de Productos Farmacéuticos Bioequivalentes ANAMED ISPch–ANVSChile
-Miguel Angel Cabrera Prof. Asociado Central University of Las Villas

Summary:

Gastrointestinal symptoms have an impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals that can be debilitating, however, the majority of people can be supported by the pharmacy team to self-care and effectively manage their symptoms.

Aim: 

To explore: lifestyle factors that can cause or worsen gastrointestinal complaints and the role of pharmacy team in supporting the majority of customers to self-care and effectively manage their symptoms.

Learning objectives: 

1. List common GI symptoms and their impact on people;
2. Identify and suggest approaches to addressing lifestyle factors causing GI symptoms.
3. Discuss the role of pharmacy team to support people with GI symptoms to self-care

Moderator:
- Manjiri Gharat, FIP Vice-President, India

Panellists:
- Ruth Rudling, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Specialty Medicines, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust (MYHT), UK
- Anja St. Clair-Jones, Consultant Pharmacist Gastroenterology, University Hospitals Sussex, UK

Traditionally, the distribution of medicines to consumers has been organized through heavily regulated networks of physical pharmacies. The strict regulation of market structure has been in place to ensure the safety, accessibility and affordability of medicines, but it has also limited competition in the pharmacy sector. Nowadays, the regulation of pharmacies differs between countries, and this has created different market conditions for online pharmacies to operate.

In some countries the online sales of medicines have grown considerably during the recent years as consumers have become more accustomed to e-commerce. More lately the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped the e-commerce landscape. Due to the pandemic, the demand for online services of pharmacies has increased significantly in many countries. It is also likely that this has changed preferences for some consumers permanently and demand should therefore remain at a higher level in the future.

Increased cooperation between countries in developing regulation of online pharmacies is needed, according to the report, “Online pharmacy operations and distribution of medicines”, which will be published by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) on December 8th, 2021.

Moderator:
- Lars-Åke Söderlund

Co-Moderator:
- Sarah Dineen-Griffin

Panellist:
- Catherine Duggan
- Manjiri Gharat
- Sari Westermarck
- Jacqueline Surugue
- Nadia Al Mazrouei
- Eduardo Savio
- John Jackson 
- Prosper Hiag
- Tanniru Narayana
- Jaime Acosta-Gómez

Summary
There is variability across the globe in the provision of universal healthcare. Self-care is the ability to maintain and improve individual’s health, prevent or limit diagnosed illnesses, and address self-treatable conditions. Self care is not no care and it is not necessarily practised in isolation. It may involve support and advice from others, such as expert pharmacy teams.  This event discusses how self-care can contribute to Universal Health Coverage from the perspectives of providers of healthcare services and public and patients. 

Aim: To discuss the perspectives of providers of healthcare services and the people accessing them about how self-care can contribute to universal health coverage.

Learning objectives: 

• Explain the extent to which self-care is embedded in healthcare systems;
• Discuss cultural approaches to enabling self-care as part of UHC, such as healthy lifestyles;
• List healthcare systems and patients/public’s needs for enabling self-care;
• Discuss the contribution of localised self-care delivery to UHC

Moderator:
 - Sham Moodley, Community Pharmacist, Member of the FIP Community Pharmacy Section, South Africa

Panellist:
- K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, India
- Jacqueline Bowman-Busato, Co-Founder, Belgian Private Foundation Pate Adiposité Adipositas Pacte, Belgium
- Dave Burrows, CEO and CTO, Damibu, UK

The FIP Development Goals Digital Programme “Setting goals for the decade ahead” is a comprehensive online event series providing coverage of the 21 goals over 21 events in 2021. Starting in March, the 21 digital events aim to provide description, direction and context for each specific goal, with a global plan for the decade ahead and how each nation, within each region can identify and prioritise which goals are the priorities and how the goals can support developments and transformation for them.

This programme is all about engaging the profession and supporting the profession to deliver in relevant and purposeful ways. By engaging our profession, members & colleagues everywhere with these relevant and applicable goals for the decade ahead, we can provide tools, monitoring and evaluation through data evidence, and identifying priorities across practice, science, and workforce & education.

Find out more about the FIP Development Goals here: www.fip.org/fip-development-goals

This is an important event in the region due to the presence of international, well-known, keynote speakers and the participation and support of international associations. The event will bring together regulatory and science key professionals as well pharmaceutical industry and academia to share experiences, perspectives, insights and the latest regulation and technical development.

The Theme of this conference is the regulatory aspects related to bioequivalence and the objective is to discuss current international trends and updates in bioequivalence assessment, biowaivers, bioanalytics, dissolution and procedures. 

The conference will provide a unique opportunity for regulators, members of the pharmaceutical industry and academics in MENA region to interact with international experts and obtain information on current and innovative trends in the areas of bioequivalence, biowaivers, bioanalysis, and dissolution testing.

The Global Advanced development framework (GADF) was developed to support the professional development and recognition of the pharmacy workforce everywhere and the Global Competency Framework (GbCF) was developed by the FIP as a focused support structure for early career pharmacists.  This digital event seeks to create more awareness for the GADF and GbCF and to enable young pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists have a better understanding of their structure.

The FIP Development Goals Digital Programme “Setting goals for the decade ahead” is a comprehensive online event series providing coverage of the 21 goals over 21 events in 2021. Starting in March, the 21 digital events aim to provide description, direction and context for each specific goal, with a global plan for the decade ahead and how each nation, within each region can identify and prioritise which goals are the priorities and how the goals can support developments and transformation for them.

This programme is all about engaging the profession and supporting the profession to deliver in relevant and purposeful ways. By engaging our profession, members & colleagues everywhere with these relevant and applicable goals for the decade ahead, we can provide tools, monitoring and evaluation through data evidence, and identifying priorities across practice, science, and workforce & education.

Find out more about the FIP Development Goals here: www.fip.org/fip-development-goals

Summary

Pharmacy teams are increasingly supporting children and their carers with self-care. This webinar will focus particularly on appropriate management of choices of medicines and products to support children’s health, and the role of the pharmacist. A case study will be presented and the event will conclude with a panel discussion.

Aim: To identify how the community pharmacy team can support self-care of common health problems for children and their carers.

Learning objectives: 

1. Increase awareness of children’s health issues, how common they are, what impacts they have and how they can be managed;
2. Learn how to support carers and children with common health issues;
3. Discuss appropriate management in the choice of medicines and products.
4. Describe the role that pharmacist and their team can play in advising and educating carers and children so they can self-care.

Moderator:
Sarah Dineen-Griffin, Lecturer in health services management and leadership, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Panellist:
- Hadi Dassouki, Community Pharmacist, Lebanon
- Jack Collins, Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Australia
- Joanne Crook, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics, Kings College Hospital, UK